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Revision as of 20:41, 28 September 2015
This tutorial will help you install Alpine Linux on your Raspberry Pi.
Preparation
This section will help you format and partition your SD card:
- Download Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball
 - Mount your SD card to your workstation
 - Use gnome-disks or fdisk to create a vfat partition (file system id='c')
 - Mark the newly created partition as bootable and save
 - Mount the previously created filesystem
 - Extract the tarball contents to your SD Card
 - Unmount the SD Card.
 
Installation
Alpine Linux will be installed as diskless mode, hence you need to use Alpine Local Backup (lbu) to save your modifications between reboots.
- Insert the SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and turn it on
 - Login into the Alpine system
 - Type 
setup-alpine - Once the installation is complete, commit the changes by typing 
lbu commit - Reboot to verify that the installation was indeed successful.