Managing Alpine Linux » History » Version 4
Nico Schottelius, 07/03/2020 01:21 PM
| 1 | 1 | Nico Schottelius | h1. Managing Alpine Linux |
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| 3 | h2. Create a UEFI bootable usb stick |
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| 5 | 2 | Nico Schottelius | * Download the alpine iso |
| 6 | * Create one fresh new partition on the USB stick - NEEDS TO BE GPT |
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| 7 | ** partition type must be EFI (ef00) |
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| 8 | * Format the partition with mkfs.vfat |
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| 9 | * mount the ISO (mount -o loop /path/to/iso /somewhere) |
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| 10 | * mount the USB stick (mount /dev/sdX1 /somewhere_else) |
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| 11 | ** copy files from the alpine ISO: @cd /somewhere; tar c . | ( cd /somewhere_else; tar xv ; sync)@ |
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| 12 | * umount the usb stick |
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| 13 | * umount the ISO |
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| 15 | You can now use the USB stick for UEFI booting. |
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| 17 | 4 | Nico Schottelius | h2. Installing in IPv6 only networks |
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| 19 | * Select DHCP |
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| 20 | * After it acquires an IP address stop and change to a different console |
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| 21 | * Add valid DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf |
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| 22 | ** In our case: for instance @nameserver 2a0a:e5c0:2:a::a@ |
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| 24 | 1 | Nico Schottelius | h2. Installing with encrypted root filesystem |
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| 26 | * apk add cryptsetup |
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| 27 | * abort setup-alpine |
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| 28 | * mounting manually the crypted device |
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| 29 | * switching to setup-disk /mnt |
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| 30 | * bind mounting the dev/sys/proc/efivars into /mnt |
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| 31 | * modifying /etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf to include cryptsetup AND nvme! |
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| 32 | * running mkinitfs |
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| 33 | * modify /etc/default/grub |
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| 34 | * apk add efibootmgr in the chroot |
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| 35 | * run grub-install --efi-directory=/boot |
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| 36 | * apk add dhcpcd |
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| 37 | * grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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| 38 | * setup root password in chroot |
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| 39 | * post reboot: switch repos to edge (required for variety of packages) |