Michael's base installation procedure

Greetings.

The objective of this page is to report what I do to install alpine. If it works, others can also follow it. If it doesn't, I can refer others to it so that they can help spot what I'm doing wrong.

Boot from ventoy.

root

setup-alpine

us

us

alpine

ENTER (eth0)

ENTER (dhcp)

ENTER (wlan0)

1

passwd..

ENTER (dhcp)

n

new password

new password

..time zone..

..no proxy..

..default.. (chrony)

1

user

real name user

passwd

passwd

default, none,

default, openssh,

..here I deviate slightly:

?

cryptsys

y

..enter file system password many times..

reboot.

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..now the fun begins..

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root

passwd

---> Immediately upgrade to edge because I know I need it to install signal-messenger.

edit the file as instructed: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Include:Upgrading_to_Edge

apk update

apk add --upgrade apk-tools

apk upgrade --available

sync

reboot

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..the fun continues..

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root

passwd..

setup-devd udev

apk add dbus

apk add dbus-x11

rc-update add dbus

rc-service dbus start

Continue to:

• Michael's sway desktop (minimal)
• Michael's cwm desktop (minimal)