Installation of Alpine Linux on Raspberry Pi

We are going to get our feet wet with installing an embedded operating system on a Raspberry Pi. We will then configure, commit the changes and install a program on Alpine Linux and demonstrate what happens when data is not saved before rebooting. There will be future videos where we will be building embedded systems, so be sure that you are subscribed so you see when they are coming out.

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00:00 - Start
00:15 - SD Card Preparation
01:42 - Formatting the SD Card
02:56 - Downloading Alpine Linux
03:40 - Extracting the Files to the SD Card
04:32 - Booting Up
05:29 - Logging In
05:58 - Setup-Alpine
10:38 - Committing Changes Using LBU
11:06 - Installing a Program
12:31 - Searching for Packages with APK
12:46 - Rebooting the System
13:52 - Shutting Down
14:03 - Looking at the Config on the SD Card
14:50 - Outro
15:12 - End Card

[VGldXM]

Thanks for the tutorial, very easy to follow and straightforward. nice

[chrisspatgen]

Very Good Video! May I suggest to get access to a lot more packages, edit /etc/apk/repositories file and remove "#" from the line that ends with "community". This allows a lot more packages from the community to be used. I know this was only a test so, I would suggest doing this on both in a test and a production environment.🖥

[oedipusdrex]

Thanks Greg. I was curious to try out Alpine linux on my Raspbery pi 2, and I was soooo confused when there was no .ISO that needed to be written to the sdcard. Very different than raspian, or dietpi!

[vonhohenzollern]

Would you care for a followup video on how to actually upgrade from one version to another on a ram-based alpine including kernel upgrades and all that good stuff? 3.19 just released

[neiltan]

Great video Greg but I cannot get Alpine to boot up. I'm using Linux to wipe and partition the SD card to FAT32. I extract the alpine**.tar.gz file to the SD card and eject to safely remove the card. I insert it into the RPi3b and boot. All I'm getting is the RPI rainbow screen. Even after several minutes nothing happens. I've been able to run Alpine in VM but can't get it to work on the SD card. I've even tried other cards. Any suggestions or links? Thanks. N

[typingcat]

Installing Linux on Rpi is easy..., because there are many support materials. But Rpi is now too expensive for me. I wish installing Alpine on those cheap Chinese Risc-V boards like Milk-V ($6) were easier like it.

[SianaGearz]

"The boot process is very fast" he exclaims after a jump cut.

[hernanlaborde]

Very good video, thanks. I have RP3+ and the image which was that works for me.