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Txnintn at 16:26, 12 August 2023

2023-08-12T16:26:49Z

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	mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot<br>		mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot<br>
	setup-disk -m sys /mount<br>		setup-disk -m sys /mount<br>
			reboot and remove setup usb drive.

Txnintn at 16:25, 12 August 2023

2023-08-12T16:25:38Z

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 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot<br>
 setup-disk -m sys /mount<br>

Txnintn: /* test */ new section

2023-08-12T16:23:12Z

test: new section

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			== test ==

			test

Txnintn: /* How to do a manual LVM install on a Raspberry Pi 4. */ new section

2023-08-12T16:21:36Z

How to do a manual LVM install on a Raspberry Pi 4.: new section

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	PRESS lbu ci<br>		PRESS lbu ci<br>
	PRESS lbu commit -d<br>		PRESS lbu commit -d<br>

			== How to do a manual LVM install on a Raspberry Pi 4. ==

			Insert USB Alpine Linux setup disk into usb2.0 port. <br>
			Power on the Raspberry Pi<br>
			At the rainbow splash screen, plug in your SDA drive. <br>
			Type root at the prompt and press enter.<br>

			# source title<br>
			Setting up Logical Volumes with LVM<br>

			Type modprobe dm-mod<br>
			Type echo dm-mod >> /etc/modules-load.d/dm.conf<br>

			Type setup-keymap us us and press enter<br>

			Type setup-hostname ha-1836 and press enter<br>

			Type setup-interfaces and press enter<br>

			rc-service networking start<br>

			Setup-timezone -z America/Chicago and press enter<br>

			rc-update add networking boot<br>

			rc-update add seedrng boot<br>

			rc-update add acpid default<br>

			vi /etc/hosts<br>

			setup-ntp<br>

			setup-apkrepos<br>

			apk update<br>

			setup-sshd<br>

			apk add lvm2 e2fsprogs lsblk<br>

			rc-update add lvm<br>

			pvcreate /dev/sda2<br>

			vgcreate vg0 /dev/sda2<br>

			lvcreate -n lv_root -L 8G vg0<br>

			rc-update add lvm boot<br>

			mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg0/lv_root<br>

			initialize volume group<br>
			vgchange -ay<br>

			mount -t ext4 /dev/vg0/root /mnt/<br>
			mkdir /mnt/boot<br>
			mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot<br>
			setup-disk -m sys /mount<br>

Zcrayfish: Used nowiki on a URL that was not intended to be a hyperlink.

2023-07-27T22:34:50Z

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	At, HTTP/FTP proxy URL? (e.g. /http://proxy:8000', or 'none') [none], prompt.<br>		At, HTTP/FTP proxy URL? (e.g. /<nowiki>http://proxy:8000</nowiki>', or 'none') [none], prompt.<br>
	PRESS: enter for the default, none.<br>		PRESS: enter for the default, none.<br>
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Txnintn at 17:23, 5 July 2023

2023-07-05T17:23:50Z

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	Install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry PI 4 in Diskless Mode.<br>		Install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry PI 4 in Diskless Mode.<br>

Txnintn at 19:13, 4 July 2023

2023-07-04T19:13:17Z

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Txnintn: Install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry PI 4 in Diskless Mode.

2023-07-04T18:57:36Z

Install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry PI 4 in Diskless Mode.

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Install Alpine Linux on a Raspberry PI 4 in Diskless Mode.

Discussion:

Preparation
The Raspberry Pi requires fat 16 / 32 boot partition with boot and LBA flags enabled. The Raspberry PI will boot from either a USB or a Micro SD port.
Prepare a USB or Micro SD drive 1st partition fat 32 partition type 0c with boot and LBA flags.
Use the rest of the drive in the second partition Ext4 partition type 83.
Extract the contents of alpine-rpi-3.x.x-aarch.tar.gz to the first partition.

To start the install,
TYPE: setup-alpine and PRESS: enter.

At, Select keyboard layout: [none], prompt.
TYPE: us and PRESS: enter.
At, Select variant (or 'abort'):, prompt.
TYPE: us and PRESS: enter.

At, Enter system hostname (fully qualified form, e.g. 'foo.example.org') [localhost] prompt.
PRESS: enter, to use the default localhost.

At, Enter '?' for help on bridges, bonding and vlans.
Which one do you want to initialize? (or '?' or 'done' [eth0], prompt.
PRESS: enter, to use the default, ethernet0 connection.

Ip address for eth0? (or 'dhcp', 'none', '?') [dhcp], prompt.
PRESS: enter to use the default, dhcp.

At the second, Enter '?' for help on bridges, bonding and vlans.
Which one do you want to initialize? (or '?' or 'done' [wlan0], prompt.
TYPE: done and PRESS: enter.

Then at, Do you want to do and manual network configuration? (y/n) [n], prompt.
PRESS enter for the default, [n], for no.

At, Change password for root, prompt.
TYPE: the root password, and PRESS: enter.
At, Retype password, prompt.
TYPE: the root password and PRESS: enter.

At, Which timezone are you in? ('?' for a list) [UTC]. prompt.
TYPE: America, with a capital A, and press enter.

At, What sub-timezone of 'America' are you in? ('?' for list), prompt.
TYPE: Chicago, with a capital C, and press enter.

At, HTTP/FTP proxy URL? (e.g. /http://proxy:8000', or 'none') [none], prompt.
PRESS: enter for the default, none.

At, Which NTP Client to run? ('busybox', 'openntpd', 'chrony' or 'none') [chrony], prompt.
PRESS: enter for the default, chrony.

When the list of mirrors stop and at --More--, prompt
PRESS: the letter "r".

r) Add random from the above list
f) Detect and add the fastest mirror from above list
e) Edit /etc/apk/repositories with text editor

At, Enter mirror number (1-72) or URL to add (or r/f/e/done) [1], prompt.
PRESS: enter for the default number 1.

At, Setup a user? (enter a lower-case loginname, or 'no') [no], prompt.
PRESS: enter for the default no.

At, which ssh server? ('openssh', 'dropbear' or 'none'), prompt.
TYPE: none and PRESS: enter to continue.

No disks available. Try boot media /media/sda1? (y/n) [n]

Enter where to store configs ('floppy', 'sda1', 'usb', or 'none') [sda1]
TYPE: none and press enter to continue.

Enter apk cache directory (or '?' or 'none') [/media/usb/cache]
TYPE: none and press enter to continue.

The install is complete.

Warning: By default, an lbu commit only stores modifications below /etc, with the exception of the /etc/init.d/ directory.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup
Warning: By default, an lbu commit only stores modifications below /etc, with the exception of the /etc/init.d/ directory.
However, lbu include enables modifying that set of included files, and can be used to specify additional files or folders.

Create the apk cache file location and a LBU backup directory.
At the command prompt, TYPE: mkdir /root/config-backups and then PRESS: enter.
At the command prompt, TYPE: mkdir /etc/apk/cache and then PRESS: enter
At the command prompt, TYPE: vi /etc/lbu/lbu.conf and then PRESS: enter

PRESS: the ESC key and press i to change to insert mode.
Remove the pound sign at LBU_BACKUPDIR=/root/config-backups
Remove the pound sign at BACKUP_LIMIT=3
PRESS the ESC key and TYPE : followed by wq and PRESS enter.
PRESS lbu ci
PRESS lbu commit -d