Create a Bootable Device

Installing Alpine on a USB Stick - Automatical Process

Requirements

To put Alpine on a USB drive, you will need:

• An Alpine Linux ISO image file (Download)
• A partitioned and formatted USB drive
• UNetbootin

Note: UNetbootin is available for many distributions and Windows.

Process

After the launch of UNetbootin, click the Diskimage radio button, and then the ... button to select the Alpine ISO image.

When you selected your USB device under Device and press OK' to proceed. When UNetbootin is done, your USB drive is ready to use.

Installing Alpine on a USB Stick - Manual Process

This process applies to Alpine Linux 1.9.0 or later, and results in a run-from-ram style installation.

Requirements

In order to follow this document, you will need:

• Alpine Linux CD-ROM (Download a .iso file containing an Alpine release.)
• A USB drive (flash, external HD, card reader, etc.)

If you already have a running Linux system (Alpine Linux 2.1.x, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, etc.), log in as root, insert the Alpine Linux CD-ROM into the running Linux computer, and skip the next section.

Boot Alpine Linux CD-ROM

1. Insert the Alpine Linux CD into a computer.
2. Boot the computer from the Alpine Linux CD-ROM.
   • This step may require changes to the BIOS settings to select booting from CD.
3. Login with the username root. No password is needed.

Setup bootable media

Tip: If using Alpine 1.10.4 or newer, you can use this section to complete all setup, then skip to the See Also section to continue with your setup. If not, please proceed to the next section now.

1. Insert the removable USB stick into the computer.
2. Determine the name your computer uses for your USB stick. The following step is one way to do this.
   • After inserting the USB stick, run the command:

   • dmesg

   • At the end of this command you should see the name of your USB stick, likely starting with "sd". (For example: "sda").
   • The remainder of this document will assume that your USB stick is called /dev/sda

1. Mount the Alpine Linux CD-ROM

   • mount /media/cdrom

1. Run the setup-bootable script to install Alpine

   • setup-bootable /media/cdrom /dev/sda1

Tip: You can now skip to the See Also section.

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