Minor cleanup and additions

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Nilsson
2016-07-22 20:00:13 +02:00
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HowTo: Finit on Alpine Linux 3.4
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This is a mini-howto for booting a very basic Alpine Linux with Finit.
It is assumed that the user has already installed a compiler, C library
header files, and other tools needed to build a GNU configure based
project.
Mini HowTo using Finit to boot an Alpine Linux system. It is assumed
that the user has already installed a compiler, C library header files,
and other tools needed to build a GNU configure based project.
To start with you need to first install [libuEv][] and [libite][], by
default they install to `/usr/local` and Alpine's `pkg-config` does not
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alpine:~/finit# make all install
The installation will skip setting up `/sbin/init`, because it already
exists, and Alpine is hard coded to use it. So you have to change the
symlink yourself to point to `finit` instead of `/bin/busybox`.
The installation skips `/sbin/init`, because it already exists, and
Alpine is hard coded to use it. So you have to change the symlink
yourself to point to `finit` instead of `/bin/busybox`.
Before rebooting, make sure to install [/etc/finit.conf](finit.conf) and
the glue [/etc/rc.local](rc.local) from this directory -- check them
both if they need to be tweaked for your installation, you may not run
Dropbear SSH or speak Swedish ...
alpine:~/finit# cd /sbin
alpine:/sbin# rm init
alpine:/sbin# ln -s finit init
Before rebooting, make sure to set up a [/etc/finit.conf](finit.conf),
and possibly also an [/etc/rc.local](rc.local) for one-shot set up and
initialization like keyboard language etc. You can use the files in
this directory as templates -- check them both if they need to be
tweaked for your installation, you may not run Dropbear SSH or speak
Swedish ...
[libuEv]: https://github.com/troglobit/libuev
[libite]: https://github.com/troglobit/libite