Talk:Installation

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I wasn't here for most of the drama, but it might help with reducing redundant pages and poor verbiage if some of the other "install" pages were made subpages of this one. Instead of "Installing Alpine in a virtual machine", "Installing Alpine on VMware ESXi", "Alpine on ARM", etc... we could group by hypervisor (if any), then architecture or firmware, then board, etc... existing only where there are differences between others of the same level. For example:

Installation/VirtualBox/BIOS -
Installation/AARCH64/Raspberry Pi 4
Installation/x86/Dell Inspiron 1525

Alternatively, we could duplicate the top level installation page for each architecture (like the Gentoo Handbook). That would allow better nuance in the initial media preparation and boot process. This page would then simply provide a brief guide of choosing the correct arch. Arrogance (talk) 09:17, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

+1 for this idea. I'm not a pro at this but it would make it easier to navigate. Is the subpage feature on for regular pages? bbbhltz (talk) 10:46, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

No, it's not on, although that doesn't technically stop making pages this way. It mostly just means there isn't a built-in way to navigate to parent pages. Within certain constraints (a hypothetical Installation/x86 would need to be named Installation/X86, for example), it shouldn't stop enabling them at a future date, either. Arrogance (talk) 18:25, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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We are aware that wiki is not so complete but, last month wiki installation page are a crap ton of changes.. The wiki page tries to include so many information.. but it lacks of good structure, neither hav a good requirements page

So then I separated the requirements detailed to a new wiki page, https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Requirements, with all details and reduce significatively the installation page details to only RAM and SPACE storage..

Later added a section in https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_newbie_install_manual#Ways_to_install_Alpine_listed_by_architectures so then users that need different methods of install does not need to crap with over information the only wiki installation page.. (over information) I mean over sentences of "for this ARM flafour go to here and here and for this toy go to here"

Last then i reduced rest of info to improved independent pages of each one! Contributions must be focused in independent cases and listed in how to and tutorial wiki page .. so then i can check and later listed at new users tutorial pages.

All of this new pages will be improved in next days. Currently information was slpitted and improved to reduce the oversized installation page!

About changes and recent diff from SB1 June and July changes...

Checksum command is a extra optional info: first note are the checksum command to verify.. only takes in consideration linux (ovbiusly will be so "rare" if not) and win! there' is no more OS in the world? there's no MAC or FreeBSD? is clear Alpine need minimal linux knowledge so are nonsense try to catch win users without minimal linux knowledge.. specific pages for that must be done! not in main install pages!

Boot of external devices depends of each computer device so each wiki page cases of architecture installation must added its own information

also the use Sb1 erased/changed so many information and does not property posted in any other page .. (i mean setup alpine or similar) all the info was grouped and pasted in main installation page.. oversized the target of.. the good examples of wiki pages must be like: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_.27sys.27.2C_.27data.27.2C_and_.27diskless.27_when_running_.27setup-alpine.27_or_.27setup-disk.27.3F makes references to install page as further deep information available.. but this page as i said was changed significatively..

--mckaygerhard July 2020

Sorry, it's problematic when your edits **replace** concise pages with your "alpine newbie" series style. (And that repeatedly.) For readers looking for information, these are a quite much convoluted agglomeration of multiple, unmaintainable pages with much overlapping and duplicate information and do not refrain from opinionated jargon.

For example, it does not make much sense to move the recommended image verification commands into some Requirements page. That page is immense and convoluted with unmaintanable tables that for example only resemble statistics about the currently downloadable images. Further, parts of it are duplicated in the plethora of "Alpine_newbie" install recipes (in which readers that follow it or want to look up something to get lost in, without getting a much needed overview and information about the available options, to end up being able to arrive at well informed decisions).

=> So there are good reasons why your changes were reverted (12:40, 12 December 2020‎ "Reverting as of https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/<20201002143513.yco7vwx2ci3lqezm@wolfsden.cz> Second time user Mckaygerhard pulled stunt on this page. (Aug.13/19 & Jul.12/20))