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How To:

Download from microsoft https://wsldownload.azureedge.net/16.04.2-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz

or ubunut https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz

• First enable Windows Subsystem for Linux from Program and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off
• Restart Windows (MS has a thing for rebooting)
• Download one of the image and host it on your local web server if not done already
• Start Fiddler and enable Automatic Breakpoints (Alt+F11)
• Start command prompt and run lxrun /install /y
• Switch to Fiddler. You will see a request to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=730581. Click on Headers tab -> Right click on Location -> Edit Header -> Paste your local link URL (i.e. http://localhost/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz) and click on - - Save -> Run to Completion
• There will be another request to http://localhost/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.gz. Just click on “Run to completion” this time.
• After some time, there will again another request to download “ubuntu.ico”. Just allow it.
• Create a new user and you are ready to go!