Michael's installation procedure

Greetings.

The objective of this page is to report what I do to install alpine. If it works, others can also follow it. If it doesn't, I can refer others to it so that they can help spot what I'm doing wrong.

Boot from ventoy.

root

setup-alpine

us

alpine

ENTER (eth0)

ENTER (dhcp)

ENTER (wlan0)

1

passwd..

ENTER (dhcp)

n

new password

..time zone..

..no proxy..

..default.. (chrony)

1

user

real name user

passwd

default, none,

default, openssh,

..here I deviate slightly:

?

cryptsys

y

..enter file system password many times..

reboot.

..now the fun begins..

root

passwd

---> Immediately upgrade to edge because I know I need it to install signal-messenger.

edit the file as instructed: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Include:Upgrading_to_Edge

apk-update

apk add --upgrade apk-tools

apk upgrade --available

sync

reboot

..the fun continues..

root

passwd..

setup-devd udev

apk add dbus

apk add dbus-x11

rc-update add dbus

rc-service dbus start

Only relevant if you want to install cwm! (this method is currently complete only for sway)

add the following lines to .xinitrc:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --brightness 0.3

# feh --bg-fill /home/legolas/wallpaper/valley_of_flowers.jpg

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session cwm

note that last line. it is currently the only thing I do to start the d-bus session for my user. I think there is more I have to do.

(also, technically, the wallpaper will have to wait until I download the appropriate file..)

apk add mesa-dri-gallium

..and now we're almost done..

setup-desktop

sway

reboot

...the claim is that it will reboot into a graphical login screen..

..it does not.

root

passwd..

sway

this seems to work. (!)