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| There are currently two supported ways of running Alpine, from CDROM or from USB stick.
| | = General = |
| | Alpine can boot from various media such as USB stick, CDrom or hard drive.<BR> |
| | No matter what media you use to boot your Alpine it will load required packages into RAM and run from there. |
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| == Preparing the media == | | == Howto == |
| | | * [[Installing_Alpine_on_CD]] |
| === CDROM ===
| | * [[Installing_Alpine_on_USB]] |
| Download the latest iso image from the [http://www.alpinelinux.org/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads download] area and burn it.
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| === USB ===
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| Alpine is shipped in compressed tar.gz archives for USB.
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| ==== Make USB-stick bootable ====
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| ===== From windows =====
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| * Download the [http://dl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v1.6/usbdrive/syslinux.exe syslinux.exe] utility. | |
| * Start a command prompt (Start->run, type ''cmd'' and press >enter>)
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| * Run syslinux with your USB drive as parameter. If your USB drive is E:, then you type:
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| syslinux E:
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| * Flag the partition bootable
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| fdisk E:
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| (Make the partition bootable somehow :-)
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| ===== From Linux =====
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| * install syslinux (I.E ''sudo apt-get syslinux'' or ''emerge apt-get syslinux'')
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| * Copy MBR to the USB drive (assuming your USB drive is /dev/sda)
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| sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
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| * Run syslinux with your USB drive as parameter.
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| sudo syslinux /dev/sda1
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| * Flag the partition bootable
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| fdisk /dev/sda
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| a (Toggle's the bootable flag)
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| 1 (The partition you want to have the flag)
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| w (Writing your changes to the disk)
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| ==== Unpack Alpine to USB drive ====
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| * Download a alpine-x.x.x-yyyyyy.tar.gz package.
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| * Unpack all the files to your usb drive using a unpacker like [http://www.7-zip.org 7-zip].
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| == Initial setup ==
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| After booting up you will see a login prompt. Log in as ''root''.
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| To do the basic initial configuration run:
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| setup-alpine
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| There you will set the hostname, configure the network and set the root password.
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| Add the following line to your ''/etc/lbu/lbu.conf'' file:
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| LBU_MEDIA=usb
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| If you want to store the configureation on floppy you set ''LBU_MEDIA=floppy'' instead.
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| To save the configuration for next reboot run:
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| lbu commit
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| === Managing software packages ===
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| To list all the packages that are available in repository, run:
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| apk_fetch -l
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| apk_fetch -v -l
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| To install a package run:
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| apk_add <PACKAGE>
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| To remove the package run:
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| apk_delete <PACKAGE>
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| To also remove the dependencies togehter with the package, run:
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| apk_delete -R <PACKAGE>
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| To list all installed packages run:
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| apk_info
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| === Managing boot services ===
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| To start a service during boot run:
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| rc_add <service>
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| === Managing local backups ===
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| To add a config file to the local backup list run:
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| lbu_add /path/to/file
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| To save all the files in the local backup list to floppy run:
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| lbu_commit floppy
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| To save the configs to USB drive run:
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| lbu_commit usb
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| To list files in the local backup list run:
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| cat /etc/backuplist
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