Alpine Linux Handbook

This material is work-in-progress ... Do not follow instructions here until this notice is removed. (Last edited by Mattx86 on 5 Aug 2010.)

Table of Contents

1 About Alpine Linux

1.1 Why Should I Try It?

1.2 What's It Like?

1.3 What Should I Know?

1.4 How did Alpine Linux Begin?

1.5 Why the Name Alpine?

2 Obtaining Alpine Linux

2.1 Alpine Linux Flavors

2.2 Download Alpine Linux

2.3 Older Releases

3 Installing and Upgrading Alpine Linux

3.1 Installing Alpine on CD

3.2 Installing Alpine on USB

3.3 Installing Alpine on Compact Flash

3.4 Installing Alpine on HDD (Overwriting Everything)

3.5 Installing Alpine on HDD (Dual-Booting)

3.6 Upgrading Alpine

4 Networking

4.1 Setting System Hostname

4.2 IPv4 Configuration

4.3 IPv6 Configuration

5 Package Management

5.1 Repository Mirrors (Include this)

6 Init System

7 Local Backup (lbu)

8 Tutorials and Howtos

9 FAQs

10 Support

11 Contribute

12 Developer Documentation

13 Miscellaneous