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Alpine Linux is a lightweight security-oriented Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux is one of the fastest startup times of all operating systems. It is famous for its small size and is widely used in containers.

Download iso image

Open the official website (https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/)) and find the appropriate image download for your desired platform. The default is to image to x86 / 64.

Installation

Setup-alpine

Whether it is burning a flash drive or booting in a virtual machine, after entering the terminal, type root to log in unencrypted by default, and then execute the "setup-alpine" command to start his installation program on the terminal.

Keyboard layout

For keyboard layout, enter "cn"

Enter by default

The following configuration options, such as "hostname", "network card configuration", "IP address configuration", "configuration dns" and so on, can be selected by default, and can be modified according to the actual situation if necessary.

Time zone configuration

Manually enter "Asia" and "Shanghai"

Select software source

If you are connected here, enter "f" and let the program automatically match the fastest software source. It might take a while. Try not to skip it, because you need to install commands related to networking when formatting the hard drive later.

Ssh server

The following ssh and NTP will be available by default.

Format the hard disk

Take a closer look at every step after that, and ask you "Availabe disks are" and "Which disks would you like to use?" To select the installed hard drive, you can enter "?" To list the available hard drives, and then manually enter, here I install to "sda", you can choose another location if you need.

After asking you "How would you like to use it?", enter "sys" to install the hard disk, and you can learn about the rest "data" and "lvm". I won't repeat them here.

It will take some time to format the hard disk and then copy the files. When it is finished, it will prompt "Installation is complete". At this time, unplug the USB drive or set the hard disk to start first, and you can restart it.

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