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  • Creating initial boot media
  • Apr 29, 2022

Prepare your SD card

Partition the SD card

Windows 10 Partitioning

Using built-in GUI ‘Disk Management’ feature

TBD

Using diskpart

TBD

Using PowerShell

TBD

Linux (many distros) Partitioning

GUI

Using Gnome ‘Disks’ applet

Using command line (CLI)

Partitioning on the Linux command line

Creating a filesystem on the Linux command line

Mac OS Partitioning

TBD

Copy the tarball contents to ‘boot’ partition

Tarball extract on Windows 10

You will need to install a program such a 7-zip

TBD

Tarball extract on Linux (many distros)

Copy install tarball to boot partition using GUI file manager

Using CLI commands

Assuming you have mounted your new boot partition on /mnt you can (as root) do:

tar -C /mnt -xzf /path/to/install-tarball.tar.gz

Tarball extract on Mac OS

TBD

  • Prepare SD card using GNOME Disks

    Prepare Alpine Linux bootstrap SD card for Pi using Gnome ‘Disks’

  • Copy tarball to boot under Gnome

    Copy the needed files to your SD card, from the Raspbery Pi tarball for Alpine Linux

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  • Mar 5, 2025
  • 1:26 am
  • Daniel F. Dickinson

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