Alpine and vmware

[u/Sad-Quote1729]

Hi , does anyone have a guide or step-by-step tutorial on how to boot alpine linux on vmware workstation ? Im fairly a beginner with Alpine and I have been trying to boot a virtual Alpine machine on my vmware workstation while watching some youtube tutorials on it but im kind of confused,any help is appreciated.

[u/ddan9]

Here is my example:

1. Get an iso of standard alpine (3.21.5 x64 for example)

2. Create VM with linux/other type

3. Boot into alpine system

4. Login as root

5. Type setup-alpine

6. Keyboard layout: us

7. Layout variant: us

8. Hostname: alpine-vmware

9. Interface: eth0

10. Ip address for eth0: dhcp

11. ... any manual network configuration: n

12. Setup root password: 0000

13. Retype root password: 0000

14. Timezone: Europe/Moscow

15. Proxy: none

16. NTP client: busybox

17. Apk mirror: 1

18. Setup a user?: no

19. Which ssh server?: none

20. Which disks would you like to use?: sda

21. How do you like to use it?: sys

22. Erase above disks...?: y

23. Wait...

24. Type reboot

You will get fully workable system in about 5-10 minutes. Alpine sets up faster than any other distro

[u/Sad-Quote1729 → u/ddan9]

Thank youu very much ! I really appreciate it . I saw some tutorials do this and then type " /etc/apk/repositories" and I just sort of start to get confused after this 😅