User:Ncopa/Install Handbook
The different run modes
- tmpfs mode
- disk mode
Prepare the Boot media
- explain where to find the iso
- explain how to burn it the cdrom or create a bootable USB.
Booting
- explain how to boot the cd/usb. (mention that you might set up BIOS so it boots from cdrom/usb)
- mention boot options that might be needed for vmware
Setup
- Write a simple walkthrough of setup-alpine. Its a nice handholding for newbies.
- Explain how to use setup-disk if you want install alpine to disk
- might be an idea to tell how to run fdisk to create custom partition tables for setup-disk.
- Explain how to use 'lbu commit' if "tmpfs" and explain why you don't need it when installing on disk.
at this point the user should have a basic bootable alpine system. The handbook could continue wiht things like:
Configuring the network
- explain shortly about the network interface names (eth0, eth1, ppp0 etc)
- explain how to do the simple networking setup, dhcp, static ip etc.
- explainhow to start/stop interfaces
- advanced network configuration like pppoe, bridges, bonding, vlans, wifi?
Installing/removing software packages
- explain the basic usage for apk-tools
- setting up http repositories - mention http proxies
- installing packages
- deleting packages
- upgrade, explain how to set up the apk cache
- mention the .apk-new files, maybe as an advanced topic.
Services
- tell what openrc is
- explain how to start stop services
- explain about runlevels and how to add services to "default" runlevel
- explain about openrc dependencies
- maybe mention how to configure services (/etc/conf.d) and maybe tell about the difference between /etc/daemon.conf and /etc/conf.d/daemon
Upgrading
- tell how to upgrade alpine to new version
Configure X.org
- explain how to set up x11 and create an xorg.conf