Installing alpine linux from another linux
make partitin without journal and reserved space for ssd
if your pc reboots suddendly dont disable journal
sudo mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal -m 0 /dev/sda5 download static apk from gitlab release for your architecture
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools/-/releases
chmod +x apk.staticsudo cfdik /dev/sdamkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt bootstrap alpine base
sudo ./apk.static -X "http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/latest-stable/main" -U --allow-untrusted --root /mnt --initdb add alpine-base chroot script
nano chroot.shmount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev && mount --make-rslave /mnt/dev mount --rbind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts && mount --make-rslave /mnt/dev/pts mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc && mount --make-rslave /mnt/proc mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys && mount --make-rslave /mnt/sys chroot /mnt /bin/sh
sudo /bin/sh ./chroot.sh echo "nameserver 1.1.1.1" > /etc/resolv.confsetup-apkrepos
install and configure apps
cat /etc/apk/workd apk add alsa-utils brightnessctl bubblewrap cfdisk doas dosfstools e2fsprogs file firefox font-awesome font-dejavu font-dejavu-sans-mono-nerd foot grim gsettings-desktop-schemas htop i3blocks intel-media-driver iwd jq libudev-zero linux-firmware-ath10k linux-firmware-i915 linux-firmware-none linux-lts mesa-dri-gallium mingetty mpv nano nnn ntfs-3g openresolv seatd slurp socat sway wireless-regdb wl-clipboard wofi wtype zathura-pdf-mupdf run setup-devd, choose mdev or udev
else install libudev-zeroif you dont care about udev rules for android,brightness etc
startsway
if [ -z "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]; then
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir"
mkdir -pm 0700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
fi
export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1
dbus-run-session sway kernel, firmware , bootloaders
for systemd-boot , limeline , or stub loadersmount efi partition to /boot as alpine install kernel and initrafs there mount /dev/sda1 /boot apk add systemd-boot efibootmgr
mkdir -p /boot/EFI/systemd/
cp /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi /boot/EFI/systemd/
mkdir -p /boot/loader/entries/ cat /boot/loader/entries/alpine.conf
title alpine
linux /vmlinuz-lts
initrd /initramfs-lts
options root=/dev/sda2 modules=sd-mod,ext4 quiet
apk add linux-firmware-none# Device specific: Inspiron 3501 apk add linux-firmware-ath10k linux-firmware-i915 # Device specific: Inspiron 5559 apk add linux-firmware-amd linux-firmware-amdgpu linux-firmware-radeon linux-firmware-intel intel-media-driver
custom kernel try
apk add xz-utils zstd # whatever kernel compressionsudo apk add build-base ncurses-dev libssl-dev bc flex elfutils-dev bison diffutils openssl-dev service managment
rc-service --help
Usage: rc-service [options] [-i] <service> <cmd>...
or: rc-service [options] -e <service>
or: rc-service [options] -l
or: rc-service [options] -r <service>
Options: [ cdDe:ilr:INsSZChqVvU ]
-d, --debug set xtrace when running the command
-D, --nodeps ignore dependencies
-e, --exists <arg> tests if the service exists or not
-c, --ifcrashed if the service is crashed run the command
-i, --ifexists if the service exists run the command
-I, --ifinactive if the service is inactive run the command
-N, --ifnotstarted if the service is not started run the command
-s, --ifstarted if the service is started run the command
-S, --ifstopped if the service is stopped run the command
-l, --list list all available services
-r, --resolve <arg> resolve the service name to an init script
-Z, --dry-run dry run (show what would happen)
-h, --help Display this help output
-C, --nocolor Disable color output
-V, --version Display software version
-v, --verbose Run verbosely
-q, --quiet Run quietly (repeat to suppress errors)
-U, --user Run in user mode rc-update --help
Usage: rc-update [options] add <service> [<runlevel>...]
or: rc-update [options] del <service> [<runlevel>...]
or: rc-update [options] [show [<runlevel>...]]
Options: [ asuChqVvU ]
-a, --all Process all runlevels
-s, --stack Stack a runlevel instead of a service
-u, --update Force an update of the dependency tree
-h, --help Display this help output
-C, --nocolor Disable color output
-V, --version Display software version
-v, --verbose Run verbosely
-q, --quiet Run quietly (repeat to suppress errors)
-U, --user Run in user mode Services & Users
setup-devd mdev
if you dont use udev you need libudev-zero for xorg/wayland-compositor
hwdrivers service is added if you select y on devd
rc-update add fsck sysinit
rc-update add localmount
rc-update add iwd boot
rc-update add seatd boot
rc-update add killprocs shutdown
rc-update add mount-ro shutdown
# User setup
adduser k -s /bin/ash
passwd k
addgroup k seat
addgroup k video
addgroup k audio
addgroup k wheel
autologin inittabapk add mingettycat /etc/inittab
# /etc/inittab
::sysinit:/sbin/openrc -q sysinit
::sysinit:/sbin/openrc -q boot
::wait:/sbin/openrc -q default
::sysinit:/bin/chown k:k /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
tty1::respawn:/usr/sbin/mingetty --autologin k --noclear --nonewline --noissue --nohostname tty1
tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
::shutdown:/sbin/openrc shutdownhttps://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Sway
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR cat .local/bin/startsway
#!/bin/sh
if test -z "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/xdg/"${UID}"-xdg-runtime-dir
if ! test -d "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
mkdir -p "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
fi
fi
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway
dbus-run-session sway
at .profile
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.
# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
exec startsway
fi update time sudo ntpd -d -n -q -p pool.ntp.org 
