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Custom Alpine Boot USB

Custom Alpine Boot USB

This is a method to create a custom bootable USB drive with the Alpine tools. For such purposes as booting a remote computer and connecting to your private VPN for troubleshooting or reinstallation.

Prepare System

Required packages:

apk add alpine-sdk alpine-conf syslinux xorriso squashfs-tools grub grub-efi doas

And for an EFI bootable machine:

alpine-sdk mtools dosfstools grub-efi

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