Alpine

Prepare SD card using GNOME Disks

Prepare and SD card to bootstrap Alpine Linux bootstrap card onto your Raspberry Pi using Gnome 'Disks'.

April 30, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

Copy tarball to boot under Gnome

Copy the needed files to bootstrap Alpine for your Raspberry Pi onto your SD card, from the Raspbery Pi tarball for Alpine Linux, using GNOME.

April 30, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

Do pre-boot tweaks

Before installing you need to do some tweaks to the SD card boot partition

April 29, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson0 minutes

Do pre-boot tweaks

Before you can successfully install on your Pi system, you need to do some tweaks to the SD card boot partition

April 29, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

HOWTOs

Miscellaneous tasks and possibly useful things to do on your Alpine Linux system.

April 29, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson0 minutes

Add nano and use as default editor

April 28, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

Add etckeeper

April 28, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Add etckeeper git remote for pushing on commit

April 28, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson4 minutes

Netboot Alpine Linux using iPXE

It can be especially useful to use network booting to create virtual machines without using install media on the VM. To do that we netboot with iPXE.

July 9, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

restic/rest-server install & configure

A guide to using `rest-server` top host repositories for `restic`-based backups, on a system running Alpine Linux.

April 28, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute