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| = Installing Alpine on a VMWare Server virtual machine =
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| # create a virtual machine (linux, other 2.6 32 bit) | |
| ## the vm doesn't need a hard drive
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| ## add a cdrom to the vm that points to the alpine iso you downloaded
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| ## add a floppy (choose new floppy image and give it a file name to create a fake floppy image on your machine)
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| # boot into the vm
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| # press f2 on boot to enter the BIOS
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| ## warning: this can be a real timing trick. I had to disconnect the cd and floppy and try several times to get into the bios screen before it started trying to network boot
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| ## change the boot order so that it boots from cd, then hd, then floppy (or whatever - as long as cd is first)
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| # boot the machine
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| # now run the following commands:
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| ## mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
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| ## mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
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| ## setup-alpine
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| ## lbu ci floppy
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| Now you should be able to reboot and it should retain your settings because they were saved to your floppy.
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