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This tutorial will help you install Alpine Linux on your Raspberry Pi.
This tutorial will help you install Alpine Linux on your Raspberry Pi.


== Preparation ==
== Preparation ==


# [http://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ Download] Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball
This section will help you format and partition your SD card:
 
# [http://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ Download] Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball which is named as <code>alpine-rpi-<version>-armhf.rpi.tar.gz</code>.  You will need version 3.2.0 or greater if you have a Raspberry Pi 2.
# Mount your SD card to your workstation
# Mount your SD card to your workstation
# Use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Disks gnome-disks] or fdisk to create a vfat partition (file system id='c')
# Use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Disks gnome-disks] or [http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk fdisk] to create a FAT32 partition.  If you are using fdisk, the FAT32 partition type is called ''W95 FAT32 (LBA)'' and its ID is 0x0C.
# Mark the newly created partition as bootable and save
# Mark the newly created partition as bootable and save
# Mount the previously created filesystem
# Mount the previously created partition
# Extract the tarball contents to your SD Card
# Extract the tarball contents to your FAT32 partition
# Unmount the SD Card.
# Unmount the SD Card.


== Installation ==


== Installation ==
Optionally create a "usercfg.txt" file on your SD card to configure low-level system settings. Specifications can be found [https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt here]. Some interesting values include:
* Enable audio: dtparam=audio=on
* If you see black edges around your screen: disable_overscan=1


Alpine Linux will be installed as [[Installation#Installation_Handbook|diskless mode]], hence you need to use [[Alpine local backup|Alpine Local Backup (lbu)]] to save your modifications between reboots.
Alpine Linux will be installed as [[Installation#Installation_Handbook|diskless mode]], hence you need to use [[Alpine local backup|Alpine Local Backup (lbu)]] to save your modifications between reboots. Follow these steps to install Alpine Linux:


# Insert the SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and turn it on
# Insert the SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and turn it on
# Login into the Alpine system
# Login into the Alpine system as root.  Leave the password empty.
# Type <code>setup-alpine</code>
# Type <code>setup-alpine</code>
# Once the installation is complete, commit the changes by typing <code>lbu commit</code>
# Once the installation is complete, commit the changes by typing <code>lbu commit -d</code>
# Reboot to verify that the installation was indeed successful.
 
Type <code>reboot</code> to verify that the installation was indeed successful.
 
== Post Installation ==
 
=== Update the System ===
 
Upon installation, make sure that your system is up-to-date:
 
{{cmd|apk update
apk upgrade}}
 
Don't forget to save the changes:
 
{{cmd|lbu commit -d}}
 
=== Clock-related error messages ===
 
During the booting time, you might notice errors related to the hardware clock.  The Raspberry Pi does not have
a hardware clock and therefore you need to disable the hwclock daemon and enable swclock:
 
{{cmd|rc-update add swclock boot    # enable the software clock
rc-update del hwclock boot    # disable the hardware clock}}
 
Since Raspberry Pi does not have a clock, the Alpine Linux needs to know what the time is by using a
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol Network Time Protocol (NTP)] daemon.  Make sure that you a
NTP daemon installed and running.  If you are not sure, then you can install NTP client by running the following
command:
 
{{cmd|setup-ntp}}
 
Busybox NTP client might be the most lightweight solution.  Save the changes and reboot, once the NTP software is
installed and running:
 
{{cmd|lbu commit -d
reboot}}
 
After reboot, make sure that the <code>date</code> command outputs the correct date and time.
 
=== X11 Setup ===
Here are what you need if you want to try and run a single X11 application like a browser kiosk or maybe even a desktop: ​{{cmd|setup-xorg-base
​apk add xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard dbus ​set​xkbmap kbd 
rc-update ​​add dbus}}
 
Install XFCE:
{{cmd|apk add xfce4}}
 
Commit your changes:
{{cmd|lbu_commit -d}}
 
 
{{cmd|startx}}
 
=== Enable OpenGL (RPi 3) ===
 
Remount the boot partition writeable (ie. /media/mmcblk0p1):
 
{{cmd|mount -o remount,rw /media/mmcblk0p1}}
 
Add the following lines to /media/mmcblk0p1/config.txt
 
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
gpu_mem=128
 
256MB gpu_mem is also possible
 
Install mesa-dri-vc4:
{{cmd|apk add mesa-dri-vc4}}
 
Reboot:
 
{{cmd|lbu_commit -d; reboot}}
 
== Persistent storage ==
 
=== Loopback image with overlayfs ===
 
The install is in disk-less mode and forces everything into memory, if you want additional storage we need to create loop-back storage onto the SD mounted with overlayfs.
 
First make the sd-card writable again and change fstab to always do so:
{{cmd|mount /media/mmcblk0p1 -o rw,remount
sed -i 's/vfat\ ro,/vfat\ rw,' /etc/fstab}}
 
Create the loop-back file, this example is 1 GB:
 
{{cmd|dd if&#61;/dev/zero of&#61;/media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img bs&#61;1024 count&#61;0 seek&#61;1048576}}
 
Install the ext utilities:
 
{{cmd|apk add e2fsprogs}}
 
Format the loop-back file:
 
{{cmd|mkfs.ext4 /media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img}}
 
Mount the storage:
 
{{cmd|echo "/media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img /media/persist ext4 rw,relatime,errors&#61;remount-ro 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mkdir /media/persist
mount -a}}
 
Make the overlay folders, we are doing /usr here, but you can do /home or anything else:
 
{{cmd|mkdir /media/persist/usr
mkdir /media/persist/.work
echo "overlay /usr overlay lowerdir&#61;/usr,upperdir&#61;/media/persist/usr,workdir&#61;/media/persist/.work 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a}}
 
Your /etc/fstab should look something like this:
{{Cmd|/dev/cdrom      /media/cdrom    iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/usbdisk    /media/usb      vfat    noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmcblk0p1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask&#61;0022,dmask&#61;0022,errors&#61;remount-ro 0 0
/media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img /media/persist ext4 rw,relatime,errors&#61;remount-ro 0 0
overlay /usr overlay lowerdir&#61;/usr,upperdir&#61;/media/persist/usr,workdir&#61;/media/persist/.work 0 0}}
 
Now commit the changes: (optionally remove the e2fsprogs, but it does contain repair tools)
{{cmd|lbu_commit -d}}
 
Remember with this setup, if you install things and you have done this overlay for /usr, you must not commit the 'apk add', otherwise while it boots it will try and install it to memory and not to the persist storage.
 
If you do want to install something small at boot you can use `apk add` and `lbu commit -d`.
 
If it is something a bit bigger then you can use `apk add` but then not commit it, it will be persistent (in /user), but do check everything you need is in that directory and not in folders you have not made persistent.
 
=== Traditional disk-based (sys) installation ===
 
{{Warning|This isn't yet supported by the Alpine setup scripts for Raspberry Pi. It requires manual intervention, and might break.}}
 
It is also possible to switch to a fully disk-based installation: this is not yet formally supported, but can be done somewhat manually. This frees all the memory otherwise needed for the root filesystem, allowing more installed packages.
 
Split your SD card into two partitions: the FAT32 boot partition described above (in this example it'll be <code>mmcblk0p1</code>) , and a second partition to hold the root filesystem (here it'll be <code>mmcblk0p2</code>). Boot and configure your diskless system as above, then create a root filesystem:
 
{{cmd|apk add e2fsprogs
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2}}
 
Now do a disk install via a mountpoint. The <code>setup-disk</code> script will give some errors about syslinux/extlinux, but you can ignore these: the Raspberry Pi doesn't need this to boot anyway.
 
{{cmd|<nowiki>mkdir /stage
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /stage
setup-disk -o /media/mmcblk0p1/MYHOSTNAME.apkovl.tar.gz /stage
# (ignore errors about syslinux/extlinux)</nowiki>}}
 
Add a line to <code>/stage/etc/fstab</code> to mount the Pi's boot partition again:
 
{{cmd|/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmcblk0p1 vfat defaults 0 0}}
 
Now add a <code>root=/dev/mmcblk0p2</code> parameter to the Pi's boot command line, either <code>cmdline-rpi2.txt</code> or <code>cmdline-rpi.txt</code> depending on model:
 
{{cmd|<nowiki>mount -o remount,rw /media/mmcblk0p1
sed -i '$ s/$/ root=\/dev\/mmcblk0p2/' /media/mmcblk0p1/cmdline-rpi2.txt</nowiki>}}
 
You might also consider <code>overlaytmpfs=yes</code> here, which will cause the underlying SD card root filesystem to be mounted read-only, with an overlayed tmpfs for modifications which will be discarded on shutdown.
 
Beware, though, that <b>the contents of /boot will be ignored when the Pi boots</b>: it will use the kernel, initramfs, and modloop images from the FAT32 boot partition. To update the kernel, initfs or modules, you will need to manually (generate and) copy these to the boot partition or you could use bind mount so that manually copy the files to boot partition is not needed.
 
{{cmd|<nowiki>echo /media/mmcblk0p1/boot /boot none defaults,bind 0 0 >> /etc/fstab</nowiki>}}
 
=== Persistent Installation on RPi3 ===
 
See this page : https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Classic_install_or_sys_mode_on_Raspberry_Pi
 
See https://web.archive.org/web/20171125115835/https://forum.alpinelinux.org/comment/1084#comment-1084
 
== See Also ==
 
* [[Classic install or sys mode on Raspberry Pi]] - a variant.
* [[Raspberry Pi 3 - Setting Up Bluetooth]]
* [[Raspberry Pi 3 - Configuring it as wireless access point -AP Mode]]
* [[Linux Router with VPN on a Raspberry Pi]]
* [[Create a bootable SDHC from a Mac]]
* Build custom Raspberry Pi images based on Alpine via [https://github.com/tolstoyevsky/pieman Pieman]

Revision as of 14:30, 25 July 2018

This tutorial will help you install Alpine Linux on your Raspberry Pi.

Preparation

This section will help you format and partition your SD card:

  1. Download Alpine for Raspberry Pi tarball which is named as alpine-rpi-<version>-armhf.rpi.tar.gz. You will need version 3.2.0 or greater if you have a Raspberry Pi 2.
  2. Mount your SD card to your workstation
  3. Use gnome-disks or fdisk to create a FAT32 partition. If you are using fdisk, the FAT32 partition type is called W95 FAT32 (LBA) and its ID is 0x0C.
  4. Mark the newly created partition as bootable and save
  5. Mount the previously created partition
  6. Extract the tarball contents to your FAT32 partition
  7. Unmount the SD Card.

Installation

Optionally create a "usercfg.txt" file on your SD card to configure low-level system settings. Specifications can be found here. Some interesting values include:

  • Enable audio: dtparam=audio=on
  • If you see black edges around your screen: disable_overscan=1

Alpine Linux will be installed as diskless mode, hence you need to use Alpine Local Backup (lbu) to save your modifications between reboots. Follow these steps to install Alpine Linux:

  1. Insert the SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and turn it on
  2. Login into the Alpine system as root. Leave the password empty.
  3. Type setup-alpine
  4. Once the installation is complete, commit the changes by typing lbu commit -d

Type reboot to verify that the installation was indeed successful.

Post Installation

Update the System

Upon installation, make sure that your system is up-to-date:

apk update apk upgrade

Don't forget to save the changes:

lbu commit -d

Clock-related error messages

During the booting time, you might notice errors related to the hardware clock. The Raspberry Pi does not have a hardware clock and therefore you need to disable the hwclock daemon and enable swclock:

rc-update add swclock boot # enable the software clock rc-update del hwclock boot # disable the hardware clock

Since Raspberry Pi does not have a clock, the Alpine Linux needs to know what the time is by using a Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon. Make sure that you a NTP daemon installed and running. If you are not sure, then you can install NTP client by running the following command:

setup-ntp

Busybox NTP client might be the most lightweight solution. Save the changes and reboot, once the NTP software is installed and running:

lbu commit -d reboot

After reboot, make sure that the date command outputs the correct date and time.

X11 Setup

Here are what you need if you want to try and run a single X11 application like a browser kiosk or maybe even a desktop: ​

setup-xorg-base ​apk add xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard dbus ​set​xkbmap kbd rc-update ​​add dbus

Install XFCE:

apk add xfce4

Commit your changes:

lbu_commit -d


startx

Enable OpenGL (RPi 3)

Remount the boot partition writeable (ie. /media/mmcblk0p1):

mount -o remount,rw /media/mmcblk0p1

Add the following lines to /media/mmcblk0p1/config.txt

dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
gpu_mem=128

256MB gpu_mem is also possible

Install mesa-dri-vc4:

apk add mesa-dri-vc4

Reboot:

lbu_commit -d; reboot

Persistent storage

Loopback image with overlayfs

The install is in disk-less mode and forces everything into memory, if you want additional storage we need to create loop-back storage onto the SD mounted with overlayfs.

First make the sd-card writable again and change fstab to always do so:

mount /media/mmcblk0p1 -o rw,remount sed -i 's/vfat\ ro,/vfat\ rw,' /etc/fstab

Create the loop-back file, this example is 1 GB:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img bs=1024 count=0 seek=1048576

Install the ext utilities:

apk add e2fsprogs

Format the loop-back file:

mkfs.ext4 /media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img

Mount the storage:

echo "/media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img /media/persist ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mkdir /media/persist mount -a

Make the overlay folders, we are doing /usr here, but you can do /home or anything else:

mkdir /media/persist/usr mkdir /media/persist/.work echo "overlay /usr overlay lowerdir=/usr,upperdir=/media/persist/usr,workdir=/media/persist/.work 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount -a

Your /etc/fstab should look something like this:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/usbdisk /media/usb vfat noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmcblk0p1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,errors=remount-ro 0 0 /media/mmcblk0p1/persist.img /media/persist ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0 overlay /usr overlay lowerdir=/usr,upperdir=/media/persist/usr,workdir=/media/persist/.work 0 0

Now commit the changes: (optionally remove the e2fsprogs, but it does contain repair tools)

lbu_commit -d

Remember with this setup, if you install things and you have done this overlay for /usr, you must not commit the 'apk add', otherwise while it boots it will try and install it to memory and not to the persist storage.

If you do want to install something small at boot you can use `apk add` and `lbu commit -d`.

If it is something a bit bigger then you can use `apk add` but then not commit it, it will be persistent (in /user), but do check everything you need is in that directory and not in folders you have not made persistent.

Traditional disk-based (sys) installation

Warning: This isn't yet supported by the Alpine setup scripts for Raspberry Pi. It requires manual intervention, and might break.


It is also possible to switch to a fully disk-based installation: this is not yet formally supported, but can be done somewhat manually. This frees all the memory otherwise needed for the root filesystem, allowing more installed packages.

Split your SD card into two partitions: the FAT32 boot partition described above (in this example it'll be mmcblk0p1) , and a second partition to hold the root filesystem (here it'll be mmcblk0p2). Boot and configure your diskless system as above, then create a root filesystem:

apk add e2fsprogs mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2

Now do a disk install via a mountpoint. The setup-disk script will give some errors about syslinux/extlinux, but you can ignore these: the Raspberry Pi doesn't need this to boot anyway.

mkdir /stage mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /stage setup-disk -o /media/mmcblk0p1/MYHOSTNAME.apkovl.tar.gz /stage # (ignore errors about syslinux/extlinux)

Add a line to /stage/etc/fstab to mount the Pi's boot partition again:

/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmcblk0p1 vfat defaults 0 0

Now add a root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 parameter to the Pi's boot command line, either cmdline-rpi2.txt or cmdline-rpi.txt depending on model:

mount -o remount,rw /media/mmcblk0p1 sed -i '$ s/$/ root=\/dev\/mmcblk0p2/' /media/mmcblk0p1/cmdline-rpi2.txt

You might also consider overlaytmpfs=yes here, which will cause the underlying SD card root filesystem to be mounted read-only, with an overlayed tmpfs for modifications which will be discarded on shutdown.

Beware, though, that the contents of /boot will be ignored when the Pi boots: it will use the kernel, initramfs, and modloop images from the FAT32 boot partition. To update the kernel, initfs or modules, you will need to manually (generate and) copy these to the boot partition or you could use bind mount so that manually copy the files to boot partition is not needed.

echo /media/mmcblk0p1/boot /boot none defaults,bind 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

Persistent Installation on RPi3

See this page : https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Classic_install_or_sys_mode_on_Raspberry_Pi

See https://web.archive.org/web/20171125115835/https://forum.alpinelinux.org/comment/1084#comment-1084

See Also