i first discovered it through this link, http://winworldpc.com/library_m2.shtml, there are lots of amazing stuffs there :)
you can read more about alpine linux here.
Alpine Linux comes with some setup-* scripts to facilitate users, what i intend to write here is how to fdisk the hard disk, partition them, then install Alpine Linux into it manually.
1. download alpine linux iso file, the one i got is alpine-2.4.5-x86.iso
2. boot your machine, log in with root (no password)
3. key in setup-alpine
4. select keyboard layout, us
5. select variants, us
6. hostname, localhost
7. initialize eth0, enter to use dhcp (default)
8. password for root
9. hostname, localhost
10. timezone, UTC, you can change to other timezone, but it seems alpine script cannot accept the bios clock is local clock time
11. http proxy, none
12. finding mirrors, f to let alpine script find the best mirrors.
13. ssh server, openssh
14. ntp client, none
15. choose your hard disk, sda
Available disks are: sda (19.3 GB ATA VBOX HARDDISK ) sr0 (0.2 GB VBOX CD-ROM ) Which disk(s) would you like to use? (or '?' for help or 'none') [none] sda
16. key in sys because we want setup-alpine to extracts some files to ease our tasks later
How would you like to use it? ('sys', 'data' or '?' for help) [?] sys
17. please key in n, otherwise your whole hard disk will get auto partition by alpine-script.
WARNING: The following disk(s) will be erased: sda (19.3 GB ATA VBOX HARDDISK ) WARNING: Erase the above disk(s) and continue? [y/N]: n localhost:~#
18. fdisk /dev/sda
19. i want to set my partition to cylinder boundery, so below is the copy paste from putty screen
Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-2349, default 1):[enter here, no need to key in value] Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-2349, default 2349): 120 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (121-2349, default 121):[enter here, no need to key in value] Using default value 121 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (121-2349, default 2349): 600 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 3 First cylinder (601-2349, default 601):[enter here, no need to key in value] Using default value 601 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (601-2349, default 2349): 1500 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2349 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 120 963868+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 121 600 3855600 83 Linux /dev/sda3 601 1500 7229250 83 Linux
20. then we set active boot on partition 1, change partition 2 to linux swap
Command (m for help): a Partition number (1-4): 1 Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 2 Hex code (type L to list codes): 82 Changed system type of partition 2 to 82 (Linux swap) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2349 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 120 963868+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 121 600 3855600 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 601 1500 7229250 83 Linux
21. we use "w" to write our changes into partition table.
Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered. Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table
22. next we will need to format our /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3, we can use the below command to perform these tasks.
localhost:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 localhost:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3 localhost:~# mkswap /dev/sda2
23. we create /mnt/boot directory, then we will mount our partition to /mnt
localhost:~# mkdir /mnt/boot/ localhost:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt localhost:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
24. install on our /mnt
localhost:~# mkdir setup-disk /mnt You might need to fix the MBR to be able to boot
25. next is install the MBR to /dev/sda, using the below command
localhost:~# dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda 0+1 records in 0+1 records out
26. poweroff or reboot, then we can start apk packages into our mini alpine linux.
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