Talk:Classic install or sys mode on Raspberry Pi

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Revision as of 17:06, 26 September 2025 by Prabuanand (talk | contribs) (replied to Macmpi)

Another idea: 

# mount -o remount,rw /media/mmcblk0p1
# mount --bind /media/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/media/mmcblk0p1
# FORCE_BOOTFS=1 setup-disk -m sys /mnt

Then at least I don't see errors about being unable to write to /mnt/boot. But it ends up with redundant files in /media/mmcblk0p1 and /media/mmcblk0p1/boot so that turned out to be a bit of a mess to clean up after all. And trying to use mmcblk0p1 for apk cache is not so great either, that was another thing to fix.

TBH I can't believe it's apparently been a couple of years of debate about how to work around the problems in the installation script for a rpi installation, and it's still not fixed. I'm kindof new to alpine (except to the extent that it's the basis of postmarket OS) and having to work around installer problems does not make a good impression. These instructions on this page are not step-by-step correct.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ecloud (talk • contribs) 09:17, 29 July 2023‎

Unsure this page is really needed anymore and it may seem overly confusing to new users. I guess we'd rather use standard install method and discard this one. comment added by Macmpi (talk • contribs) 12:19, 26 September 2025‎

Macmpi, i have removed all the manual instructions from the page and left only the recommended approach. - Prabuanand (talk) 17:06, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
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