Managing Alpine Linux » History » Revision 2
Revision 1 (Nico Schottelius, 07/03/2020 11:19 AM) → Revision 2/7 (Nico Schottelius, 07/03/2020 11:20 AM)
h1. Managing Alpine Linux
h2. Create a UEFI bootable usb stick
* Download the alpine iso
* Create one fresh new partition on the USB stick - NEEDS TO BE GPT
** partition type must be EFI (ef00)
* Format the partition with mkfs.vfat
* mount the ISO (mount -o loop /path/to/iso /somewhere)
* mount the USB stick (mount /dev/sdX1 /somewhere_else)
** copy files from the alpine ISO: @cd /somewhere; tar c . | ( cd /somewhere_else; tar xv ; sync)@
* umount the usb stick
* umount the ISO
You can now use the USB stick for UEFI booting.
h2. Installing with encrypted root filesystem