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Overall description: Alpine Installation from a official disc/iso burned into DVD/CD to a new computer with BIOS or UEFI and will be single only boot.
It means: that any thing in the computer and their storage will be erased to put Alpine Linux as main system, using a optical disk media as source install
This document will guide you to *install Alpine into a new empty or just fresh PC or Laptop hardware computer, use if you have a BIOS or UEFI and only wants Alpine Linux into the target computer. For other ways of install check the index installation page cases at Alpine Newbie Install page
Terminology
- **UEFI **: it's a new system included in every new hardware machine laptop or desktops, that will manage the early boot process as a little operating system, see more in the alpine-and-uefi.md page.
- New machine: will be your real machine fresh and ready to install your new Alpine operating system, with a installed CD/DVD Rom optical drive where to put the burned downloaded disc media installation.
- Source media: will be the just burned/ disc from the downloaded iso file of Alpine operating system. Will be put into the optical drive or named DVD/CD Rom to property boot the source disc as media installation.
- Target media: will be the storage medium device into the new computer target where the Alpine files for operating system will be installed, its one partition from the HardDisk of the new computer.
- Optical drive: will be your hardware drive input to put the burned downloaded iso media with the operating system Alpine to install as source media; this drive are commonly named DVD/CD Rom unit.
Requirements
- A blank disc (CD blank or DVD blank or BR blank) to just burn/record the source media file downloaded
- In the new machine we need optical drive as input source media
- In the new machine we need at least 512Mb of RAM, but required 2Gb of RAM for desktop/graphical applications
- In the new machine we need target media with at least 2G of hard disk, but required 10G for desktops
- Will need to previously downloaded and burned the Source media ISO file from https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/
Detailed requirements are at ../alpine/requirementes.md
Preparing the source medium to install
Download the source medium to install and put into your home documents, this document will use the DISK IMAGE medium type ( ISO IMG formats)
If the source medium to install download URL will be as following format:
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v<VERSION>/releases/<ARCH>/alpine-standard-<VERSION>.0-<ARCH>.iso
where ARCH and VERSION could be:
<ARCH>will be- x86: the most used i386 32-bit x86 based machines, if your computer are too older use this only.
- x86_64: the popular AMD64 compatible 64-bit x86 based machines, for modern computers use this then.
- s390x: For the Super powered IBM mainframes, use this for especially IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE servers then.
- ppc64le: For the PowerPC devices with pure little-endian mode, mostly for POWER8 and POWER9 machines.
<VERSION>could be- latest-stable for a more up to date without taking care of stability
- 3.10 the most recommended for machines between 2016 to 2018 mostly pc's
- 3.14 the most recommended for rasberris and small devices (
x86_64) - 3.16 the most recommended for machines from 2017 up to 2022 and servers
Example, so if we will use 3.10 alpine version the correct links to download will be:
- for x86_64 a link to download should be:
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso - for ppc64le a link to download should be:
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/ppc64le/alpine-standard-3.10.1-ppc64le.iso
Graphical download: Just point the web browser to that url and the
download of the iso file will start. A file with .iso extension
type, with name like "alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso" (if amd64) or
like alpine-standard-3.10.1-s390x.iso (if s390x); will be downloaded
commonly into the Download directory of your home or documents filesystem.
Command line method: in unix-like terminal execute (by example to download the 3.10 for 64bit pc):
wget -c -t8 --no-check-certificate http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso,
and where you run the command, in that place/dir will be downloaded the file.
Burning the source medium to install
After downloading the source media file from Alpine download page put the blank disc into the input optical drive named DVD/CDRom and open your CD/DVD recording program, choose to "burn from iso file" and wait the process will end.
In detail if you downloaded with Graphical download (using a web
browser), the source media file will be into the Download directory. If
you downloaded with Command line method your source file probably
will be in your root document home (or just $HOME of your Linux
install or MAC install filesystem).
In Linux, assuming the blank disc is in the optical drive, the command to record/burn the downloaded source media file is :
$ umount /dev/sr0;cdrecord -v -sao dev=/dev/sr0 alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso
If your blank media is a DVD or BD disc the command will be then :
$ umount /dev/sr0;growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso
Booting the Alpine ISO disc
When the machine start, you must be sure to choose the optical drive (commonly named CD/DVD Rom drive), so the disc/iso will boot and after a while a command line shell will show you:
Runing the setup install
TODO: The steps here are common to all the normal metos of simple install
Finishing the installation
After all of the scripts in the setup end, a "reboot" will be offered, just type "reboot" and press enter, remove the boot media and newly installed system will be booted.
You cannot see a graphical window system? take it easy and get calmed down.. in Alpine all are made by the right way.. so if user need a desktop.. user can (must) install a desktop
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