Alpine newbie installation

Log in as root and press enter. No password will be asked for if you're running from the live environment,

Run the setup-alpine script as shown in the image:

Choose your keyboard layout. If your using a US (QWERTY) keyboard choose us. Typically, for a Latin American environment, es is enough. For Russian (and maybe Cyrilic) ru is sufficient.

Choose your keyboard variant. If you don't know your keyboard variant you will need to figure that out, for US (QWERTY) keyboards choose us,

Host name, which will be the name of your computer. using the default localhost is fine, but you can input a custom hostname if you want,

Choose your network card. Typically, you can just go with the default (press enter),

The second question will ask you whether or not to use dhcp for your IP Address, unless you have a reason to choose none choose dhcp

The third question will ask you whether or not you would like to do maunal network configuration, if you dont need to or it can wait until after installation choose n, if you need to do manual network configuration now choose y and it will open /etc/interfaces in vi

The DNS should be automatically detected (you shouldnt see this), if not, you will be asked ask for the server addresses. Type "" (empty string) for domain, then press enter. Later you can change it to the DNS server address of your choice as shown in the picture. Press enter to go to the next question:

Next a root password must be defined. You'll need to type it twice for confirmation as the picture shows. If it's too short you will get a warning, but your password will still work. Just retype it and go.

Select a timezone, the default is UTC, type ? if you need help choosing a different timezone,

Choosing a sub-timezone (this may not be required depending on which timezone you choose):

Then setup script will ask for a proxy, if you want to use a proxy input the needed information now, if not leave it as the default (none)

Then setup script will ask for repository mirror chooser.. it will default to [1], you can manually choose a mirror, choose one of the options or choose the default, if your unsure just leave it as default, this can be changed after installation if needed.

Installing an SSH server enables you to manage your machine remotely. OpenSSH is what the big distros use. Dropbear is a tiny SSH replacement. Its recommended to type none if you dont intend to use SSH,

This is for time sync. Press enter to use the image offline. It can be changed after installation.

First choose your disk

Now choose your installation mode, this page will only cover crypt and sys

if you would like encryption type crypt, if not continue with the next step (if you choose crypt also proceed with the next step)

Now type sys

setup-alpine will now ask you for the last time to confirm that you want to erase the disk and continue, if your sure type y, if not type n

If you choose crypt you will be asked for a password to encryption the partition(s)

Now alpine will install to your disk, wait for it to finish then reboot when it has completed.