The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

The different run modes

tmpfs mode
disk mode

Prepare the Boot media

explain where to find the iso
explain how to burn it the cdrom or create a bootable USB.

Booting

explain how to boot the cd/usb. (mention that you might set up BIOS so it boots from cdrom/usb)
mention boot options that might be needed for vmware

Setup

Write a simple walkthrough of setup-alpine. Its a nice handholding for newbies.
Explain how to use setup-disk if you want install alpine to disk
might be an idea to tell how to run fdisk to create custom partition tables for setup-disk.
Explain how to use 'lbu commit' if "tmpfs" and explain why you don't need it when installing on disk.

at this point the user should have a basic bootable alpine system. The handbook could continue wiht things like:

Configuring the network

explain shortly about the network interface names (eth0, eth1, ppp0 etc)
explain how to do the simple networking setup, dhcp, static ip etc.
explainhow to start/stop interfaces
advanced network configuration like pppoe, bridges, bonding, vlans, wifi?

Installing/removing software packages

explain the basic usage for apk-tools
setting up http repositories - mention http proxies
installing packages
deleting packages
upgrade, explain how to set up the apk cache
mention the .apk-new files, maybe as an advanced topic.

Services

tell what openrc is
explain how to start stop services
explain about runlevels and how to add services to "default" runlevel
explain about openrc dependencies
maybe mention how to configure services (/etc/conf.d) and maybe tell about the difference between /etc/daemon.conf and /etc/conf.d/daemon

Upgrading

tell how to upgrade alpine to new version

Configure X.org

explain how to set up x11 and create an xorg.conf