X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from mx1.tetrasec.net (mx1.tetrasec.net [74.117.190.25]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1D55C4EBB for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:22:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.tetrasec.net (mail.local [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.tetrasec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9959E26AE; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:22:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ncopa-macbook.copa.dup.pw (189-70-248-107.user.veloxzone.com.br [189.70.248.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: n@tanael.org) by mx1.tetrasec.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B1BD9E26A9; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:22:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:22:30 +0100 From: Natanael Copa To: "A. Wilcox" Cc: alpine-dev Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Alpine 'virtual' ISO contents Message-ID: <20180213152230.0f0f654d@ncopa-macbook.copa.dup.pw> In-Reply-To: <7559fce3-d4c7-e1c4-d4c3-ee2c042e0b28@adelielinux.org> References: <7559fce3-d4c7-e1c4-d4c3-ee2c042e0b28@adelielinux.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 01:02:33 -0600 "A. Wilcox" wrote: > Hi there Alpinists, > > It has been a long time since I had to install a new Alpine server from > the ISO; typically, it is on a hypervisor under my control, so I just do > it from the host with chroot. Trying to set up this Alpine system using > the Virtual ISO (which is the only choice this provider gives for > Alpine), I had a number of small issues that could be easier if the > Alpine ISO had just a little bit more installed on it by default: > > - There is no LVM utility on the virtual ISO. I believe busybox can be > compiled with device-mapper libraries and function as a callable `lvm` > binary with subcommands like vgchange, lvcreate, etc, if the full `lvm2` > package is considered too large. > > - There is no `file` binary on the virtual ISO. > > - There is no `e2fsprogs` package on the virtual ISO. > > It does seem like `setup-disk` tries to use `apk add`, but there's no > repositories that have any of these packages available unless you use > `setup-apkrepos` and have a live internet connection available. It > seems rather silly to download the ISO once, burn or connect it to the > machine somehow, then have to have every VM re-download those packages > just to install. > > Thanks for the consideration. We also does not ship a linux kernel package so you will need network anyways. That is why it is so small. I wonder if we should ship a linux-virt kernel with the alpine-extended and have that as a boot option? -nc > All the best, > --arw > --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---