Tutorials and Howtos

Welcome to Tutorials and Howtos, a place of basic and advanced configuration tasks for your Alpine Linux.

The tutorials are hands-on and the reader is expected to try and achieve the goals described in each step, possibly with the help of a good examples. The output in one step is the starting point for the following step.
Howtos are smaller articles explaining how to perform a particular task with Alpine Linux. We encourage people to send in both complete articles as well as requesting topics to be covered. If you think you have the skills and knowledge to write an Alpine Linux related article please do so on this Wiki. If you want to request a topic, please add your request in this page Discussion.

Installation

• Bootstrapping Alpine on Soekris net4xxx
• Bootstrapping Alpine on PC Engines ALIX.3
• Setting up a software raid1 array
• Setting up Logical Volumes with LVM
• Setting up a /var partition on software IDE raid1
• Native Harddisk Install
• Installing XUbuntu using Alpine boot floppy
• Replacing non-Alpine Linux with Alpine remotely
• Booting Alpine on an HP ML350 G6
• Installing XFCE as a VirtualBox guest
• Enable Serial Console on Boot
• How to enable APK caching
• Install Alpine on VirtualBox

Networking

• Setting up a OpenVPN-server with Alpine
• Setting up traffic monitoring using rrdtool (and snmp)
• Setting up Zaptel/Asterisk on Alpine
• Using HSDPA modem
• Using Alpine on Windows domain with IPSEC isolation
• Using Racoon for Remote Sites
• High Performance and Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux

Misc

• Setting up lm_sensors
• Setting up Satellite Internet Connection
• Setting up Streaming an Asterisk Channel
• Formatting HD/Floppy/Other
• Setting up Transmission (bittorrent) with Clutch WebUI
• Hosting services on Alpine (This applies to hosting mail, webservices and other services)
  • Setting up postfix with virtual domains
  • Protecting your email server with Alpine
  • Hosting Web/Email services on Alpine
  • Setting up trac wiki
• Running Alpinelinux As a QEMU networked Guest
• Screen on console
• Using espeak on Alpine Linux
• Generating SSL certs with ACF
• Setting up a ssh-server
• Changing passwords
• Multiple Instances of Services
• Setting up NRPE daemon
• IPTV How To
• ISP Mail Server HowTo (Postfix+PostfixAdmin+DoveCot+Roundcube+ClamAV+Spamd - A full-serivce ISP mail server)
• XFCE Setup
• Freepbx on AlpineLinux

iSCSI

• iSCSI Target and Initiator Configuration
• iSCSI Raid and Clustered File Systems

Vserver

• Setting up a basic vserver