Installing Alpine on HDD overwriting everything: Difference between revisions

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Installing Alpine to a new machine, overwriting everything on the harddisk

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)
Run the setup-alpine script to choose your keyboard, network and password options.

Note: If you run setup-disk before setup-alpine, the setup-alpine script won't be available to you when you reboot.

Type "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"

Type "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.

Note: Since you are installing to harddisk, there is no need to use the Alpine local backup system

Continue Setting up your Computer

Alpine Linux package management (How to add/remove packages on your Alpine)
Alpine boot services (Configure a service to automatically boot at next reboot)
Setting up a ssh-server (Using ssh is a good way to administer your box remotely)

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 == Installing Alpine to a new machine, ''overwriting everything on the harddisk'' ==
+{{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.}}
-'''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
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 * Wait for the text "login:" to appear, type "root" and press enter twice (blank password)
 * Run the setup-alpine script to choose your keyboard, network and password options.
+{{Note|If you run setup-disk before setup-alpine, the setup-alpine script won't be available to you when you reboot.}}
 * Type "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"
-* Now you want to setup somewhere to save settings between reboots. Assuming /dev/sda3/ is your / partition, write
- mkdir /media/lbu
- vi /etc/fstab
-Press the letter "i", move the cursor down to the bottom of the file and type
- /dev/sda3     /media/lbu     ext3     defaults      0     0
-Press Escape, write ":wq" and press enter. Now write
- vi /etc/lbu/lbu.conf
-Press the letter "i", move the cursor down to where it says something about LBU_MEDIA. Remove the # in front and write stuff to make the line look like
- LBU_MEDIA=lbu
-Press Escape, write ":wq" and press enter. Try writing
- lbu ci
-and you should get no error messages. If you do, maybe something's wrong.
 Type "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.
-NOTE: If you run setup-disk before setup-alpine, the setup-alpine script won't be available to you when you reboot.
+{{Note|Since you are installing to harddisk, there is no need to use the [[Alpine local backup]] system}}
 === Continue Setting up your Computer ===