Instazlition failed.

[aakashrio]

Hi team

Initialization failed while installing Rancher Desktop using cmd (as administrator). I used the silent key "/quiet /norestart". Why is this happening? I have attached the install log files for you, please check and tell me why it's happening.

I need more information. I received exit code 1603. Can you please help me solve this issue?
install.log

Thanks in advance!

[mook-as]

The log says:

time="2024-08-29T09:57:01+05:30" level=info msg="--install: unrecognized option: no-distribution"

That sounds like #6415

As a workaround, please install WSL2 manually before installing Rancher Desktop. Please see Microsoft docs for details.

Note that the logs also say:

time="2024-08-29T09:55:37+05:30" level=info msg="WSL install state: Version=0.0.0.0 kernel=0.0.0.0 (inbox, outdated-kernel)"

So it sounds like you may have WSL1 installed; note that we require WSL2.

What version of Windows are you running? msiexec was never rebuilt, so it still claims that you're running Windows 8.1, which is probably false (because you have some kind of WSL).

[aakashrio]

Thanks for the information.