Installing Alpine on HDD overwriting everything: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:52, 27 January 2010

Warning This will erase everything on your machine's harddisk. Don't blame me if someone sues you for this, your cat dies etc. You are warned.

The following is meant to be an absolute newbie guide

Burn the alpine iso image to a CD
Put the CD into the new computer and turn on the power.
Wait for the text "login:" to appear, type "root" and press enter twice (blank password)
write "setup-disk" and press enter.
You will be asked where to install. If you don't understand the question, press y and enter.

The system is now installed and after a while you will see a message saying "Please reboot"

Write "reboot" and press enter. You can remove the CD now, since the system is installed.

Your system is ready. You can have fries with that, although there are healthier alternatives.

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 '''Warning''' This will erase everything on your machine's harddisk. Don't blame me if someone sues you for this, your cat dies etc. You are warned.
+The following is meant to be an absolute newbie guide
+* Burn the alpine iso image to a CD
+* Put the CD into the new computer and turn on the power.
+* Wait for the text "login:" to appear, type "root" and press enter twice (blank password)
+* write "setup-disk" and press enter.
+* You will be asked where to install. If you don't understand the question, press y and enter.
+The system is now installed and after a while you will see a message saying "Please reboot"
+Write "reboot" and press enter. You can remove the CD now, since the system is installed.
+Your system is ready. You can have fries with that, although there are healthier alternatives.