Sys install on a raspberry
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Wed, 2015-04-08 19:28
Xanathos
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- 2015-04-08
Hi,
I had already post on the mailing-list but without any success : http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-user/0013.html
I hope there is more people on the forum ^^
I would like to install alpine linux on a rasberry with the sys install method (not using lbu) Is that possible ? Actually, i format the sd card in FAT32 and i untar all the files of the archive on it. I manage to boot on the system but alpine-setup doesn't offer me to install on the sd card. I can imagine that is normal because the system is busy, so how can i do ?
Thanks a lot !
Xan'
You cannot do a regular hd install on the sd card.
The raspberry will use its own bootloader which we provide with the tarball, setup-alpine with hd install will install syslinux which will not work.
You could however partition the left over space on the sdcard and mount /home and /var on it.
Thanks a lot for your answer.
Okay, i can see the problem ;)
But i find that the lbu system a little bit complicated...
Archlinux arm provides an image of the pre-installed system with just an ssh server so you just need to copy this img to the sd card and it works without any installation.
Do you think it can be conceivable to have the same system on alpine ?
Or is it possible to build my own image ? If yes, how ? ^^
Sorry for my bad english and thanks :)
You can try to follow what some of us have been playing around with on the RPF forum -- https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=60569