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+title: "Alpine set up for daily driver"
+date: 2022-12-10
+tags: ['alpine', 'linux']
+---
+
+# Installation Process
+
+
+## Disable secure boot
+
+First, always check for secure book. If it is enabled you won't be able to boot
+your thumbdrive.
+
+## setup-alpine
+On the official wiki[^1] there a more complete guide on how to setup, and will
+probably be more accurate than this one, so always refer to that wiki first.
+This is more a log of how I setup. 
+
+Once you boot your live installation run `setup-alpine` and follow the steps:
+
+* _Select keyboard layout_: **us**
+
+* _Select keyboard variant_: **us**
+
+* _Enter system hostname_: **gridx.local** [This is my choice, if you don't know
+  what exactly is this go for the default **localhost**]
+
+* _Which one do you want to initialize?_: **wlan0** [I chose wlan0, since it is
+  a laptop I don't have it connected to cable]
+
+* _Type the wireless network name to connect to_: **\<NAME\>**
+
+* _Type network key_: ******
+
+* _Ip address for wlan0_? **dhcp** [and for the following device I have chose
+  none since I won't use them anyways]
+
+* _Do you want to do any manual network configuration_? **n** 
+
+* _Changing password for root_: ******
+
+* _Which timezone are you in?_ **Europe/Berlin**
+
+* _HTTP/FTP proxy URL?_ **none**
+* _Which NTP client to run?_ chrony
+* _Enter mirro number?_ **f** [I pick this one to speed up things a bit, default
+  one is fine as well]
+
+* _Set an user?_ **\<NAME\>** [Since we aiming to be a desktop create your user here]
+
+* _Full name for user \<NAME\>:_ **\<FULLNAME\>**
+* _Type password_: ******
+
+* _Enter ssh key or URL for \<NAME\>?_ **none** [this is a public key so you can
+  ssh into this machine]
+
+* _Which ssh server?_ **openssh**
+
+* _Which disks would like to use?_ **\<DISK\>** [now you are going to set up the
+  disk for installation]
+
+* _How would you like to use it?_ **crypt** [I like to use encrypted disks, I
+  strongly advice for it, but in case you don't want, go for sys directly]
+
+* _How would you like to use it?_ **lvm**
+
+* _How would you like to use it?_ **sys** [more info[^2]]
+
+* _WARNING: Erase the above disks and continue?_ **y**
+
+* Enter passphrase for \<DISK\>: ******
+
+Once you have finish the step run `reboot`.
+
+## Desktop environment
+
+Now comes the "hard" part, where we need to configure the desktop. For me, I'm
+going for i3wm with lightdm.
+
+To be able to install all the necessary packages we will need to enable the
+community repository[^3]. To edit it I use vim
+
+```bash
+apk add vim
+# then
+vim /etc/apk/repositories
+```
+and uncomment the `.../community`
+
+```bash
+#/media/cdrom/apks
+http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main
+http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community
+#http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
+#http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
+#http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing
+```
+
+Then run  `apk update` and you will see the both repositories printed out.
+
+Now we will install the necessary drivers for `xorg` to run properly. Firs
+search for all  video drivers `apk search xf86-video*` and install whatever you
+have for you computer (in my case `apk add apk add xf86-video-amdgpu`)
+
+* `apk add mesa-dri-gallium mesa-va-gallium mesa-egl`
+* `setup-xorg-base`
+* `apk add lightdm-gtk-greeter`
+* `setup-devd udev`
+* `rc-update add dbus`
+* `rc-update add lightdm`
+
+* `apk add terminus-font`
+*  `dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id`
+* `rc-update add dbus`
+* `apk add i3wm i3status xterm i3lock`
+* `add user <NAME> input`
+* `add user <NAME> video`
+* `reboot`
+
+[^1]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#Questions_asked_by_setup-alpine
+[^2]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#The_general_course_of_action
+[^3]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Repositories#Enabling_the_community_repository