Howtos

Edit message of the day (MOTD)

The default MOTD (mesage of the day) is potentially confusing, and is annoying in any event with a configured system.

April 28, 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

Add man pages and other on-system docs

April 28, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

Ucode-based mountpoint command for OpenWrt

Due to an OpenWrt issue, the author needed a version of the 'mountpoint' command. Since the author wanted to learn ucode, they coded a version of the command using it.

February 17, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes