Installing Alpine on HDD overwriting everything

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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.
  • Run the setup-alpine script
    • Choose your keyboard, as an example, I chose US
    • Host name, which will be the name of your computer, you can just press enter if you want to use the default
    • Choose your network card, most people can just go with the default (press enter)
      • Most people will use DHCP, so press enter again, or you can enter in your static IP address
    • Type in your root password
    • Choose a time zone, I chose NZ for New Zealand
    • Press enter to choose the fastest mirror
      • Press enter again once a mirror has been chosen
    • Choose a disk you want to install Alpine onto, if you only have one hard drive, then press enter
      • Now choose how you would like to use it, for this guide, choose sys, this will install the entire OS onto your hard drive
      • You are given a final chance to back out, type in Y to continue
  • The installation is now complete and your be asked to reboot. Type in reboot and press enter

Take out the CD, and your computer should boot into Alpine using your hard drive.

Continue Setting up your Computer

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