Subject: [alpine-devel] Alpine 'virtual' ISO contents

From: "A. Wilcox" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 01:02:33 -0600

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.

All the best,
--arw

-- 
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
http://adelielinux.org

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:22:30 +0100

On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 01:02:33 -0600

> 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

> --arw

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