VPS

This section is to provide a means to bootstrap Alpine Linux on any VPS.

Process

Prepare

Download apk-tools-static for your architecture.

wget https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/api/v4/projects/5/packages/generic/v2.14.0/x86_64/apk.static

Unpack .apk

tar zxf apk-tools-static-*.apk

Install

Assuming your alpine rootfs is mounted in /tmp/target

sudo ./sbin/apk.static --arch $(arch) -X http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/main/ -U --allow-untrusted --root /tmp/target --initdb add alpine-base

edit /tmp/target/etc/fstab
edit /tmp/target/etc/inittab
edit /tmp/target/etc/resolv.conf
mount proc/sys/dev

for a in proc sys dev; do mount -o bind /$a /tmp/target/$a; done

chroot into your new installation

chroot /tmp/target /bin/sh

setup repos

setup-apkrepos -f

add a few base packages

apk update
apk add linux-lts linux-firmware-none acpi mkinitfs

setup hostname

setup-hostname

setup network

setup-interfaces

add services to boot

rc-update add acpid default
rc-update add bootmisc boot
rc-update add crond default
rc-update add devfs sysinit
rc-update add dmesg sysinit
rc-update add hostname boot
rc-update add hwclock boot
rc-update add hwdrivers sysinit
rc-update add killprocs shutdown
rc-update add mdev sysinit
rc-update add modules boot
rc-update add mount-ro shutdown
rc-update add networking boot
rc-update add savecache shutdown
rc-update add seedrng boot
rc-update add swap boot

Bootloader

References