`Installable WSL images` in `Import Rocky Linux to WSL` doesn't seem to work

[DanielYang59]

I just tried the following section to install rocky 9 on my windows 11 machine (AMD64), but wsl --install --from-file <path-to/Rocky-10-WSL-Base.latest.x86_64.wsl> <machine-name> doesn't seem to work for me:

PS D:\> wsl --install --from-file .\Rocky-9-WSL-Base.latest.x86_64.wsl rocky9
Arguments --from-file and --distribution can't be specified at same time.
Error code: Wsl/E_INVALIDARG

[sspencerwire]

@lumarel Could you take a look at this one? Thanks!

[wsoyinka]

@DanielYang59 - Thank you for reporting this :-) !

We are investigating. There's a chance that our docs are referencing an option (--from-file) that is no longer available in wsl.

[lumarel]

@DanielYang59 Hi there, sorry for the delay.
This means that your wsl version is most likely too old.
Please check if there is a later version of WSL with wsl --update 🙂
Nevermind, I got the problem 🙃 The docs are missing a --name it misinterprets the name as the distribution name

[lumarel]

@DanielYang59 Thanks for noticing this, I really must have overlooked that like the 5 times I review-read the docs 😓

[DanielYang59]

Great thanks for fixing this, yep looks like it would default rocky9 as the [Distro] instead of name:

--install [Distro] [Options...]