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{{Gloss|-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.}}
{{Gloss|-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.}}
{{Gloss|-c <i>answerfile</i>|Create a new "answerfile", with default choices. You can edit the file and then invoke <code>setup-alpine -f <i>answerfile</i></code>.}}
;-c <i>answerfile</i>
{{Gloss|-f <i>answerfile</i>|Use an existing "answerfile", which may override some or all of the interactive prompts.}}
:Create a new "answerfile", with default choices. You can edit the file and then invoke <code>setup-alpine -f <i>answerfile</i></code>.
;-f <i>answerfile</i>
:Use an existing "answerfile", which may override some or all of the interactive prompts.
{{Gloss|-q|Run in "quick mode." See below for details. FIXME}}
{{Gloss|-q|Run in "quick mode." See below for details. FIXME}}



Revision as of 11:34, 4 March 2012

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 arguments (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 "answer file".

  1. setup-keymap [us us]
  2. setup-hostname [-n alpine-test]
  3. setup-interfaces [-i < interfaces-file]
  4. /etc/init.d/networking --quiet start &
  5. if none of the networking interfaces were configured using dhcp, then: setup-dns [-d example.com -n "8.8.8.8 [...]"]
  6. set the root password
  7. if not in quick mode, then: setup-timezone [-z UTC | -z America/New_York | -p EST+5]
  8. enable the new hostname (/etc/init.d/hostname --quiet restart)
  9. add networking and urandom to the "boot" rc level, and acpid and cron to the "default" rc level, and start the boot and default rc services
  10. extract the fully-qualified domain name and hostname from /etc/resolv.conf and hostname, and update /etc/hosts
  11. setup-apkrepos [-r (to select a mirror randomly)]
  12. if not in quick mode, then: setup-sshd [-c openssh | dropbear | none]
  13. if not in quick mode, then: setup-ntp [-c chrony | openntpd | none]
  14. if not in quick mode, then: DEFAULT_DISK=none setup-disk -q [-m data /dev/sda]
  15. if not in quick mode, and the selected installation mode was "data" instead of "sys", then: setup-lbu [/media/sdb1]
  16. if not in quick mode, and the selected installation mode 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 /dev/sda]

To be added.

setup-bootable

Must be run manually, to be added.

setup-cryptswap

Must be run manually, to be added.

setup-xorg-base

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.

setup-mta

Uses ssmtp.

setup-alpine-web

setup-acf

setup-ads