Re-Launching the Environment

As discussed earlier, the WSL-ROS Environment that you created earlier will only be preserved for a limited time on the machine that you installed it on!

Warning

Any work that you do within WSL-ROS will not be preserved between sessions or across different University machines automatically!

At the beginning of each practical session (or any other time you want to work in WSL-ROS) you'll need to re-install the environment from the OS image. You must therefore make sure that you back up your work to your University U: Drive every time you finish working in the environment, so that you can then restore it the next time you return (we'll remind you about this at the start and end of every practical session, just in case you forget).

The WSL-ROS Environment will, however, be preserved for a limited time if you happen to log in to the same University machine within a few hours. If this is the case, then on launching WSL-ROS you will be presented with the following message:

Enter Y to continue where you left things previously, or N to start from a fresh installation.

Warning

If you select N then any work that you have created in the existing environment will be deleted! Always make sure you back up your work using the procedure outlined below!