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Incomplete installtion of WLS. What now?
I tried installing WSL on a Win10 21H1 system but the installation failed. I need some suggestions for my next step.
Several tutorials on the web for installing WSL don't mention the Hyper-V Virtualization requirement, and I blindly followed one of them. (For instance, the Prerequisites section of the Microsoft article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install doesn't mention virtualization.) I started the installation on a computer without Hyper-V Virtualization enabled. A lot of activity took place before the installation failed. Programs and Features shows I have WSL installed but I know the installation of Ubuntu failed.
If I decide to switch to a different computer, what do I have to do to clean up the incomplete installation? Do I just uninstall WSL or are there other things that need to be removed or changed?
If I decide to enable Hyper-V Virtualization on this computer, how do I pick up the installation? Uninstall WSL and start over from the top? Or is there some way to tell where I failed and pick up from there? (I can't guarantee that it was just the Ubuntu installation that died.)