Which one do you want to initialize? (or '?' or 'done') Your personal setup will be a little longer, some self explaining steps are skipped for brevity. This is the initial installation sequence as it displayed in the command line interface. You may change this message by editing /etc/motd. You can setup the system with the command: setup-alpine Information about administrating Alpine systems. The Alpine Wiki contains a large amount of how-to guides and general Enable serial port redirection to a localhost TCP port 4321: qemu-system-i386 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-virt-3.10.3-x86.iso -hda ~/GNS3/images/qemu/alpine-frr7.qcow2 -enable-kvm -m 1G -serial telnet:localhost:4321,server,nowaitĬonnect to serial port redirected to port 4321 on localhost, for username use root, password is hitting the enter ke and enable serial port redirection to a localhost port 4321. The qcow file is only 1GB large, and the resulting installation will be not more than 175MB: qemu-img create -f qcow2 alpine-frr7.qcow2 1GĪfter the diskfile has been created, use QEMU to boot the downloaded iso file. wget Ĭreate an empty disk image file for the virtual guest installation. The available virtual appliances in the GNS Marketplace are either to old or need much more resources.ĭownload an x86 ISO file from the official alpine linux website, or use the direct link to the x86 ISO file. Recently after reading the FRR release notes, I have noticed that alpine linux offers recent FRR binaries in its testing repository.īuilding a tiny FRR appliance from scratch is a complex task. Some weeks ago I have been using a self-baked FRR routing appliance for the GNS3 network emulator in the blog article FRR basic IS-IS router configuration.
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