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**Overall description:** Alpine Installation from a official disc/iso
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burned into DVD/CD to a new computer with [BIOS](alpine-bios-uefi-info.md#bios)
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or [UEFI](alpine-bios-uefi-info.md#uefi) and will be single only boot.
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**It means:** that any thing in the computer and their storage will be erased to
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put Alpine Linux as main system, using a optical disk media as source install
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This document will guide you to ***install Alpine into a new empty or
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just fresh PC or Laptop hardware computer**, use if you have a [BIOS or UEFI](../alpine/alpine-and-uefi.md)
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and only wants Alpine Linux into the target computer. For other ways
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of install check the index installation page cases at [Alpine Newbie Install](alpine-newbie-install.md) page
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## Terminology
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- **[UEFI](alpine-bios-uefi-info.md#uefi) **: it's a new system included
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in every new hardware machine laptop or desktops, that will manage
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the early boot process as a little operating system, see more in the
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[alpine-and-uefi.md](alpine-and-uefi.md) page.
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- **New machine**: will be your real machine fresh and ready to
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install your new Alpine operating system, with a installed CD/DVD
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Rom optical drive where to put the burned downloaded disc media
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installation.
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- **Source media**: will be the just burned/ disc from the downloaded
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iso file of Alpine operating system. Will be put into the optical
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drive or named [DVD/CD Rom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM) to
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property boot the source disc as media installation.
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- **Target media**: will be the storage medium device into the new
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computer target where the Alpine files for operating system will be
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installed, its one partition from the
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[HardDisk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive) of the new
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computer.
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- **Optical drive**: will be your hardware drive input to put the
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burned downloaded iso media with the operating system Alpine to
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install as source media; this drive are commonly named [DVD/CD
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Rom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM) unit.
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## Requirements
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- A blank disc (CD blank or DVD blank or BR blank) to just burn/record
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the source media file downloaded
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- In the new machine we need optical drive as input source media
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- In the new machine we need at least 512Mb of RAM, but required 2Gb
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of RAM for desktop/graphical applications
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- In the new machine we need target media with at least 2G of hard
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disk, but required 10G for desktops
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- Will need to previously downloaded and burned the Source media ISO
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file from <https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/>
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Detailed requirements are at [../alpine/requirementes.md](../alpine/requirementes.md)
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## Preparing the source medium to install
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Download the source medium to install and put into your home documents,
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this document will use the DISK IMAGE medium type ( ISO IMG formats)
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If the source medium to install download URL will be as following format:
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`http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v<VERSION>/releases/<ARCH>/alpine-standard-<VERSION>.0-<ARCH>.iso`
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where `ARCH` and `VERSION` could be:
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- `<ARCH>` will be
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- **x86**: the most used i386 32-bit x86 based machines, if your
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computer are too older use this only.
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- **x86\_64**: the popular AMD64 compatible 64-bit x86 based machines, for
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modern computers use this then.
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- **s390x**: For the Super powered IBM mainframes, use this for
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especially IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE servers then.
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- **ppc64le**: For the PowerPC devices with pure little-endian
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mode, mostly for POWER8 and POWER9 machines.
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- `<VERSION>` could be
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- **latest-stable** for a more up to date without taking care of stability
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- **3.10** the most recommended for machines between 2016 to 2018 mostly pc's
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- **3.14** the most recommended for rasberris and small devices (`x86_64`)
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- **3.16** the most recommended for machines from 2017 up to 2022 and servers
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Example, so if we will use 3.10 alpine version the correct links to download will be:
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- for **x86\_64** a link to download should be:
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`http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso`
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- for **ppc64le** a link to download should be:
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`http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/ppc64le/alpine-standard-3.10.1-ppc64le.iso`
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**Graphical download**: Just point the web browser to that url and the
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download of the iso file will start. A file with **.iso** extension
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type, with name like `"alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso"` (if amd64) or
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like `alpine-standard-3.10.1-s390x.iso` (if s390x); will be downloaded
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commonly into the Download directory of your home or documents filesystem.
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**Command line method**: in unix-like terminal execute (by example to download the 3.10 for 64bit pc):
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`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`,
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and where you run the command, in that place/dir will be downloaded the file.
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## Burning the source medium to install
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After downloading the source media file from [Alpine download page](https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/)
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put the blank disc into the input optical drive
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named [DVD/CDRom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM) and **open your CD/DVD
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recording program, choose to "burn from iso file"** and wait the process
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will end.
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In detail if you downloaded with **Graphical download** (using a web
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browser), the source media file will be into the Download directory. If
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you downloaded with **Command line method** your source file probably
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will be in your root document home (or just `$HOME` of your Linux
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install or MAC install filesystem).
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In Linux, assuming the blank disc is in the optical drive, the command
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to record/burn the downloaded source media file is :
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`$ umount /dev/sr0;cdrecord -v -sao dev=/dev/sr0 alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso`
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If your blank media is a DVD or BD disc the command will be then :
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`$ umount /dev/sr0;growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso`
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## Booting the Alpine ISO disc
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When the machine start, you must be sure to choose the optical drive
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(commonly named CD/DVD Rom drive), so the disc/iso will boot and after a
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while a command line shell will show you:
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## Runing the setup install
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TODO: The steps here are common to all the normal metos of simple install
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## Finishing the installation
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After all of the scripts in the setup end, a "reboot" will be offered,
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just type "reboot" and press enter, remove the boot media and newly
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installed system will be booted.
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**You cannot see a graphical window system? take it easy** and get calmed down..
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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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# Documents series
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| Previous required | What's next to read |
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| ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
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| [Alpine Newbie Prepare](alpine-newbie-prepare.md) | [Alpine Newbie Configs](alpine-newbie-configs.md) |
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# See Also
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1. [Alpine Newbie Install](alpine-newbie-install.md)
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2. [Alpine newbie Desktop](alpine-newbie-desktop.md)
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