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The eventual goal with this document is to show how to upgrade a production 32-bit Alpine Linux installation to 64-bit.

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Installing Alpine 2.1.5 and upgrading to Edge 64-bit
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# setup-alpine
# setup-disk
# wget http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/releases/x86_64/alpine-edge-110310-x86_64.iso
# mkdir /media/iso
# mount -t loop /root/alpine-edge-110310-x86_64.iso /media/iso
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
# vi /mnt/etc/apk/repositories
  * remove cdrom listing if present
  * add http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/x86_64/main/
  * add http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/x86_64/testing/
  * save and exit
# apk add --allow-untrusted --root /mnt --repositories-file /etc/apk/repositories --keys-dir /etc/apk/keys -Uaf upgrade
  * as many times necessary to get past the upgrade script errors
# cp /media/iso/boot/grsec.gz /mnt/boot/initramfs-2.6.37.2-grsec
# cd /mnt/boot
# rm initramfs-2.6.35.11-grsec
# rm initramfs-grsec
# ln -s initramfs-2.6.37.2-grsec initramfs-grsec
# rm vmlinuz-grsec
# ln -s vmlinuz-2.6.37.2-grsec vmlinuz-grsec
# cd /
# umount /media/iso
# umount /mnt/boot
# umount /mnt
# reboot

After reboot:
# apk fix -r `cat /var/lib/apk/world`
# apk -Ua upgrade
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