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Alpine Linux Installation on ZFS Root with grub on UEFI

• References [ ref1 | ref2 | ref3 ]
• Boot from alpine-extended [ download ]
• login as root without any password
• setup network interfaces and start networking:

  setup-interfaces
  /etc/init.d/networking start
  

• add, config, and enable openssh:

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# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
cdrom
text
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
rootpw --plaintext vagrant

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output/

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in 5 easy steps

1

get cloud-hypervisor or firecracker

2

compile a kernel (use the provided x_kernel_config file), you'll need the stripped ELF file in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin or the compressed bzImage for cloud-hypervisor.

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#!/bin/sh

set -ex

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
KEYMAP="us us"
HOST=alpine
USER=anon
ROOT_FS=ext4
BOOT_FS=ext4

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import yaml
import sys
import json
import argparse
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import argparse
import os

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# VXLAN - Management
auto vxlan-mgmt
iface vxlan-mgmt inet manual
    pre-up ip link add vxlan-mgmt type vxlan id 10 group 239.0.0.10 dev em1 || true
    up ip link set \$IFACE up
    down ip link set \$IFACE down
    post-down ip link del vxlan-mgmt || true

# VXLAN - VXLAN
auto vxlan-vxlan

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#!/bin/sh

# Some things taken from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'
green='\033[0;32m'

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set folder="$HOME/Library/Mail";
set record="+sent";
set mbox="+mbox";
set postponed="+draft"
set timeout=5;
set markers=no;

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