nathants / alpine-setup

bootstrapping a new laptop should be easy

alpine-setup

why

bootstrapping a new laptop should be easy.

how

1. alpine-iso:

   • flash a standard iso to a usb drive from any linux distro.

2. alpine-install:

   • boot into the usb drive.
   • login as root with empty password.
   • run setup-interfaces to get online.
   • run rc-service networking restart.
   • run setup-apkrepos.
   • run vi /etc/apk/repositories.
   • run DEVICE=/dev/nvme0n1 KERNEL=lts ./alpine-install.

3. alpine-setup:

   • reboot into the installed system.
   • login as root with empty password.
   • run ./alpine-setup.

4. restore dotfiles and other data from a backup.