Install Alpine Linux Via Minirootfs Archive.

Prerequisites.

Any live usb bootable.
Alpine Linux minirootfs archive, we can get it here. We can choose alpine-minirootfs-3.20.2-x86_64.tar.gz.
Some partitions, for root system (/), efi (if you have uefi machine) and swap (optional).
Basic commandline knowledge.

Steps.

We need to do some steps here, It's not hard at all. I took some steps from here as reference.

Format and mount partitions.

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vda1
$ sudo mkswap /dev/vda2
$ sudo mount /dev/vda1 /mnt/
$ sudo swapon /dev/vda2

PS : I only use 2 partitions here, you can adjust as you wish.

Extract rootfs archive.

$ cd /mnt
$ sudo tar -xf minirootfs-3.20.2-x86_64.tar.gz

Mount some filesystems and do chroot.

$ sudo mount -o bind /proc proc/
$ sudo mount -o bind /dev dev/
$ sudo mount -o bind /sys sys/
$ sudo chroot /mnt /bin/sh

Doing some setups.

There are some setups we need to run, setup scripts are unavailable by default, so we need to get them first.
```
# echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
# apk add alpine-conf 
```
- setup hostname.
```
# setup-hostname
```
- setup network.
```
# setup-interface
```
- setup repository. I don't mind using the default repository, if you insist to configure it, you can run this command :
```
# setup-apkrepos -f
```
Install base packages.

minirootfs archive has litte package, we still need to install some base pakages.
```
# apk update
# apk add linux-lts linux-firmware-none acpi mkinitfs
```

Edit fstab.

# vi /etc/fstab

Example :

UUID=YOUR_PARTITION_UUID /     ext4    errors=remount-ro       0 1
UUID=YOUR_PARTITION_UUID swap swap defaults 0 0

Add services to boot.

We need to add some services to boot in order to boot properly. Some service are still unavailable by default, we need install some packages first.

# apk add acpid busybox-openrc busybox-extras busybox-mdev-openrc

After those package are installed, we are good to enable services.

# rc-update add acpid default
# rc-update add bootmisc boot
# rc-update add crond default
# rc-update add devfs sysinit
# rc-update add dmesg sysinit
# rc-update add hostname boot
# rc-update add hwclock boot
# rc-update add hwdrivers sysinit
# rc-update add killprocs shutdown
# rc-update add mdev sysinit
# rc-update add modules boot
# rc-update add mount-ro shutdown
# rc-update add networking boot
# rc-update add savecache shutdown
# rc-update add seedrng boot
# rc-update add swap boot

Handle bootloader stuffs.

We need to install bootloader tool. We will choose grub here, if you have other preferences feel free to adjust.
```
# apk add grub grub-bios
```
We need to adjust /etc/default/grub so we can boot normally. Just add this line and we are good.
```
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="root=UUID=5499bc10-9561-497d-be69-2148ac1554bb rw rootfstype=ext4 modules="sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4""
```
Update grub and install grub to disk.
```
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# grub-install /dev/vda
```
Set root password.

Almost forgot, we need to set password for root user.
```
# passwd
```
Exit chroot and unmount some filesystems.

We need to exit chroot and unmount some filesystems we mount before.
```
# exit
# umount proc
# umount dev/
# umount sys/
# cd /
# umount /mnt
```
Reboot.

After everything are done, let's reboot !
```
# reboot
```

lidgnulinux/Alpine_Linux_minirootfs_install.md

Install Alpine Linux Via Minirootfs Archive.

Prerequisites.

Steps.