User:Ncopa/Install Handbook

The different run modes

• tmpfs mode
• disk mode

Prepare the Boot media

• explain where to find the iso
• explain how to burn it the cdrom or create a bootable USB.

Booting

• explain how to boot the cd/usb. (mention that you might set up BIOS so it boots from cdrom/usb)
• mention boot options that might be needed for vmware

Setup

• Write a simple walkthrough of setup-alpine. Its a nice handholding for newbies.
• Explain how to use setup-disk if you want install alpine to disk
• might be an idea to tell how to run fdisk to create custom partition tables for setup-disk.
• Explain how to use 'lbu commit' if "tmpfs" and explain why you don't need it when installing on disk.

at this point the user should have a basic bootable alpine system. The handbook could continue wiht things like:

Configuring the network

• explain shortly about the network interface names (eth0, eth1, ppp0 etc)
• explain how to do the simple networking setup, dhcp, static ip etc.
• explainhow to start/stop interfaces
• advanced network configuration like pppoe, bridges, bonding, vlans, wifi?

Installing/removing software packages

• explain the basic usage for apk-tools
• setting up http repositories - mention http proxies
• installing packages
• deleting packages
• upgrade, explain how to set up the apk cache
• mention the .apk-new files, maybe as an advanced topic.

Services

• tell what openrc is
• explain how to start stop services
• explain about runlevels and how to add services to "default" runlevel
• explain about openrc dependencies
• maybe mention how to configure services (/etc/conf.d) and maybe tell about the difference between /etc/daemon.conf and /etc/conf.d/daemon

Upgrading

• tell how to upgrade alpine to new version

Configure X.org

• explain how to set up x11 and create an xorg.conf