Install Alpine Linux on Oracle Cloud ARM VPS with Ubuntu pre-installed

howto.md

Better tutorial (a little bit more complicated): https://gist.github.com/karolba/a3f1c5f8d50c67f5a19e6c8f38e53e12

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1. Download the "virtual" type aarch64 ISO file from https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/ with wget
2. Execute sudo dd if=alpine.iso of=/dev/sda
3. On the Oracle Cloud panel, setup a console connection and connect to the serial console.
4. Execute sudo reboot
5. When Alpine is launched and you are logged in as root, execute these commands in the serial console:

mkdir /media/setup
cp -a /media/sda/* /media/setup
mkdir /lib/setup
cp -a /.modloop/* /lib/setup
/etc/init.d/modloop stop
umount /dev/sda
mv /media/setup/* /media/sda/
mv /lib/setup/* /.modloop/

6. Complete the setup with setup-alpine

Just letting people know that this actually works. Make sure to download the right ISO for your achitecture. (you can install the x86_64 virtual image on an amd micro1 instance). I did get some errors in he "mv /media/setup/* /media/sda/" step but it worked fine after.

Thank you for your very helpful howto. Works perfectly.

You are best. this correctly work for me. i used this guide at amd micro x86_64 instance, it works. be careful in disk erase sequence setup-alpine.