HOWTOs

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.

You should backup your system. Really. Oh, and it should be to at least one other system.

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

While the LBU mechanism with backups allows restoring to previous state it lacks commented history. It also does not apply to ‘sys’ mode installs.

Tracking configuration changes in etckeeper is great, but even better is storing in an off-system private repository.

For many systems you should have plenty of available RAM and storage to add the online documentation (mostly in the form of man pages).

For many users vi (the default editor for Alpine) is difficult and confusing to use.

Where possible it is a best practise to safely check your filesystems before mounting them. Here we add the needed packages.

Tmux is a handy tool that gives the ability to have multiple (text) windows in a single terminal session, as well as persisting your session in case of disconnect.

Once you are sure everything is correct for the initial boot into your configured system, commit (store) your changes.