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Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 04:36
by Ed_P
@Bogomips, from your https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/comman ... eature-gui Chat link.

Ok so I have followed your link up to this point.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Ed>bash
-- Beta feature --
This will install Ubuntu on Windows, distributed by Canonical
and licensed under its terms available here:
https://aka.ms/uowterms

Type "y" to continue:
Where are you going with this?



BTW
I have NO idea where this thread belongs so I put it here. Feel free to move it if you know a better suited area for it. :Search:

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 05:30
by fulalas
I think we can move it to General Chat :)

BTW, did you see that: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... -wsl&num=2 :shock:

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 13:51
by Bogomips
Ed_P wrote:@Bogomips, from your https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/comman ... eature-gui Chat link.

Ok so I have followed your link up to this point.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Ed>bash
-- Beta feature --
This will install Ubuntu on Windows, distributed by Canonical
and licensed under its terms available here:
https://aka.ms/uowterms

Type "y" to continue:
Where are you going with this?
Start bash, then:

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tar  cf  usm.tar  USM
tar  tf  usm.tar
Would be a good start. ;)

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 14:16
by Ed_P
fulalas wrote:I think we can move it to General Chat :)
Agreed. Done. :good:
Bogomips wrote:Start bash, then:

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tar  cf  usm.tar  USM
tar  tf  usm.tar
Would be a good start. ;)
:Search:

Based on FURRY_NOVA's comment I may pass on this.

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 16:11
by Bogomips
Ed_P wrote:
Bogomips wrote:Start bash, then:

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tar  cf  usm.tar  USM
tar  tf  usm.tar
Would be a good start. ;)
:Search:

Based on FURRY_NOVA's comment I may pass on this.
Well, if that be the case, there is nothing to stop one from using VirtualBox to run win10? :twisted:

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 16:26
by jssouza
Does ubuntu on windows come with chroot? Then maybe unsquash porteus modules and chroot into it resulting in a porteus on windows?

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 17:02
by Bogomips
^ Don't think Ubuntu comes with aufs, though. :unknown:

Re: Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 12 Jul 2017, 17:15
by jssouza
Bogomips wrote:^ Don't think Ubuntu comes with aufs, though. :unknown:
@bogomips, it does (ubuntu live cds use aufs), but I dont think ubuntu on windows has it, since it should work at the kernel level. Although, I think If one unsquash's all modules before chroot, one does not need aufs, what do you think? Of course, activating newer modules cannot be done. So one must unsquashfs newer modules to the chroot as a 'module activation'

Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 16 Sep 2017, 21:30
by Bogomips
Downloading Ubuntu from Windoze Store proved quite an experience. Tablet on battery power at hotspot downloaded 40% of file, then download crashed. Tablet nodding off seemed to be cause, and even when set to not terminate internet connection while sleeping. Managed to activate wlan on my router, and with everything set to do nothing of disruptive nature on tablet, third go at download was successful although relatively slow.

Now it seems that if had windoze build 16215 or later, could also have had choice of SUSE. Anyway, having installed Ubuntu as Admin, wanted to see what would happen as ordinary user. Giving bash at command prompt then started off installation, with another download from Store, which went through very quickly, presumably due to admin download having been cached. So now have two copies of Ubuntu, with hard disk showing 25G used up. Next tried installing Nemo. Package manager had to download 117 M of files, and after extraction took up another 1G of disk space. Nemo could not function, due to lacking X display. So looks like being restricted to command line apps. :( Also so far not been able to see how to access USB, as blkid does not work, and mount only shows /mnt/c, the windoze drive.

Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 19 Sep 2017, 21:44
by Bogomips
Now have OpenOffice and Java RE installed. jEdit installed, so hopefully be able to write bash scripts with unix line endings.

Ubuntu on Windows!!

Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 04:35
by Ed_P
Bogomips wrote:
19 Sep 2017, 21:44
so hopefully be able to write bash scripts with unix line endings.
:D That's quite a goal. :happy62: