Alpine Linux

Introduction

Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency. A minimal installation to disk requires only 130MB of storage. It is used in the majority of Docker container images and installs only about 8MB of operating system software.

https://alpinelinux.org/about

Installation

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_newbie_install_manual

Fonts

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlpineLinux/comments/oipp89/set_larger_console_font_size_on_raspberry_pi/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlpineLinux/comments/evujhq/console_font/

Raspberry Pi

OK, so ignore the instructions and don't use the latest version!

Download version 3.13 for RPi4...

wget https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.13/releases/aarch64/alpine-rpi-3.13.0-aarch64.tar.gz

Partition your SD card with 2 partitions...

Device     Boot  Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *      2048   503807   501760  245M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2       503808 15548415 15044608  7.2G 83 Linux

Boot first time, log in as root with no password and run...

setup-alpine

Setup keyboard, wireless, timezone, hostname, etc. then run...

setup-disk

Choose to unmount /dev/mmcblk0 and then choose 'sys' install using 'mmcblk0' and wipe and install.

reboot

Done.

Tutorials and Howtos for Raspberry_Pi

Diskless Install Mode on Raspberry Pi

Classic Install Mode on Raspberry Pi

Information

Alpine boot process on the Raspberry Pi