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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 which is named as alpine-rpi-<version>-armhf.rpi.tar.gz. You will need version 3.2.0 or greater if you have a Raspberry Pi 2.
Mount your SD card to your workstation
Use gnome-disks or fdisk to create a FAT32 partition. If you are using fdisk, the FAT32 partition is named as W95 FAT32 (LBA) and its ID is 0xC.
Mark the newly created partition as bootable and save
Mount the previously created partition
Extract the tarball contents to your FAT32 partition
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. Follow these steps to install Alpine Linux:

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.

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 This section will help you format and partition your SD card:
-# [http://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ Download] Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball
+# [http://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ Download] Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball which is named as <code>alpine-rpi-<version>-armhf.rpi.tar.gz</code>.  You will need version 3.2.0 or greater if you have a Raspberry Pi 2.
 # Mount your SD card to your workstation
 # Use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Disks gnome-disks] or [http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk fdisk] to create a FAT32 partition.  If you are using fdisk, the FAT32 partition is named as W95 FAT32 (LBA) and its ID is 0xC.