How to: Create a node and connect to syrius.

This guide is going to be for WSL. It’s actually much easier on a linux machine with a GUI.

Prereqs: I ran into errors until I followed all of these before the node actually worked.

1. Enable WSL in windows https://www.windowscentral.com/install-windows-subsystem-linux-windows-10

2. Update to WSL2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual#step-3---enable-virtual-machine-feature

3. Install Ubuntu 20.04. Go to Windows store. Search Ubuntu and install 20.04. other distros may work but this is the one I used.

4. Enable systemd https://gist.github.com/djfdyuruiry/6720faa3f9fc59bfdf6284ee1f41f950

Installing the Linux Bundle.

From Windows

1. Download the bundle from the Zenon website https://zenon.network/#downloads

2. Open up your home/usr directory and create a new folder named zenon. From WSL you can access this by hitting the windows key + r to open a run dialogue box and typing in \\$wsl\”linux distro”\home\ and hitting enter.

3. Copy the zipped file to this folder

Launch Ubuntu.

1. Open Ubuntu by opening start menu and right clicking run as administrator
2. Once the Ubuntu console opens type in cd /home/”Your username”/zenon
3. Run “sudo unzip znn-alphanet-bundle-linux-amd64”
4. You should see an output that looks like this
5. Run the command .” sudo /znn-controller”
6. Choose option one to migrate. Paste the two below URLs when it asks for them

Peers file: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeAUQkpoEMNRQ9SFcBV2kmRTXT3WLKAoMxvAtX2ErZubJ?filename=peers.json

Genesis file: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVFyGWNt3Ph2mn9MoxZyTgjuMGSs2cDdqXP3B8Ri5AYY5?filename=genesis.json

1. Back into the terminal window you have. Type in sudo .\znnd to run the znnd program
2. It’ll start running and showing a bunch of momentums that look like so

Adding it on the zenon syrius wallet.

1. 1. Open syrius and log in
2. 2. Click the gear tab
3. 3. Find the nodes area. Click on it and choose add a node
4. 4. type ws://localhost:35998 and then add node
5. 5. in the box right above that one YOU SHALL SEE THE MESSAGE OF SUCCESS. If you don’t see that it’s okay. I failed and retried 60 times and finally got it. You will too.