Alpine setup scripts
This page summarizes the low-level behavior of the /sbin/setup-* scripts on the Alpine ISO (and in a normal Alpine install).
setup-alpine
This script accepts the following command-line switches (you can run setup-alpine -h
to see a usage message).
- -a
- Create an overlay file: this creates a temporary directory and saves its location in ROOT; however, the script doesn't export this variable so I think this feature isn't currently functional.
- -c answerfile
- Create a new "answerfile", with default choices. You can edit the file and then invoke
setup-alpine -f answerfile
. - -f answerfile
- Use an existing "answerfile", which may override some or all of the interactive prompts.
- -q
- Run in "quick mode." See below for details. FIXME
The script's behavior is to do the following, in order. Bracketed options represent extra configuration choices than can be supplied when running the auxiliary setup scripts manually, or by supplying an "answerfile".
setup-keymap
[us us]setup-hostname
[-n alpine-test]- setup-interfaces [-i < interfaces-file]
/etc/init.d/networking --quiet start &
- if none of the networking interfaces were configured using dhcp, then:
setup-dns
[-d example.com -n "8.8.8.8 [...]"] - set the root password
- if not in quick mode, then: setup-timezone [-z UTC | -z America/New_York | -p EST+5]
- enable the new hostname (
/etc/init.d/hostname --quiet restart
) - add
networking
andurandom
to the boot rc level, andacpid
andcron
to the default rc level, and start the boot and default rc services - extract the fully-qualified domain name and hostname from /etc/resolv.conf and
hostname
, and update /etc/hosts setup-apkrepos
[-r (to select a mirror randomly)]- if not in quick mode, then:
setup-sshd
[-c openssh | dropbear | none] - if not in quick mode, then:
setup-ntp
[-c chrony | openntpd | none] - if not in quick mode, then:
DEFAULT_DISK=none
setup-disk-q
[-m data /dev/sda] - if installation mode selected during setup-disk was "data" instead of "sys", then:
setup-lbu
[/media/sdb1] - if installation mode selected during setup-disk was "data" instead of "sys", then:
setup-apkcache
[/media/sdb1/cache | none]
setup-interfaces
setup-interfaces
[-i < interfaces-file]
An interfaces file has the format of /etc/network/interfaces, such as:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname alpine-test
setup-timezone
setup-timezone
[-z UTC | -z America/New_York | -p EST+5]
Can pre-select the timezone using either of these switches:
- -z subfolder of /usr/share/zoneinfo
- -p POSIX TZ format
setup-disk
DEFAULT_DISK=none setup-disk -q
[-m data | sys] [mountpoint directory | /dev/sda ...]
If more than one device are supplied, a RAID array is built using them. The array will always be RAID1 for the /boot volumes, but will be RAID5 for non-boot volumes when 3 or more devices are supplied. (See also the -r switch.)
The following switches are honored:
- -m data | sys
- Don't prompt for installation mode
- -L
- Use LVM to manage partitions.
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- -q
- Exit quietly if no disks are found.
- -v
- Verbose mode.
- -r
- Enable RAID1 in degraded mode, with a single disk.
- -s swap size in MB
- Use 0 to disable swap.
- -k kernel flavor
- -o apkovl file
- Restore system from apkovl file.
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setup-bootable
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
Its purpose is to create media that boots into tmpfs by copying the contents of an ISO onto a USB key, CF, or similar media.
This script accepts the following arguments and command-line switches (you can run setup-bootable -h
to see a usage message).
setup-bootable source
[dest]
The argument source can be a directory or an ISO (will be mounted to MNT
or /mnt) or a URL (will be downloaded with WGET
or wget
). The argument dest can be a directory mountpoint, or will default to /media/usb if not supplied.
- -k
- Keep alpine_dev in syslinux.cfg; otherwise, replace with UUID.
- -u
- Upgrade mode: keep existing syslinux.cfg and don't run
syslinux
- -f
- Overwrite syslinux.cfg even if -u was specified.
- -s
- Force the running of
syslinux
even if -u was specified.
- -v
- Verbose mode
The script will ensure that source and dest are available; will copy the contents of source to dest, ensuring first that there's enough space; and unless -u was specified, will make dest bootable.
setup-cryptswap
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
setup-cryptswap
[partition | none]
setup-xorg-base
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
Installs the following packages: xorg-server xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard udev
.
Additional packages can be supplied as arguments to setup-xorg-base
. You might need, for example, some of: xf86-input-synaptics xf86-video-something xinit
.
Documentation needed
setup-gparted-desktop
Uses openbox.
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
setup-mta
Uses ssmtp.
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
setup-alpine-web
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
setup-acf
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.
setup-ads
This is a standalone script; it's not invoked by setup-alpine but must be run manually.