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Alpine Linux + XFCE4 on Dell 5290

Installation

Standard installation with alpine-setup, except enabled community packages, switched branch to edge, and skipped automatic disk configuration.

Configured sda as follows:

  1. gpt label
  2. sda1 - 1G vfat for EFI - mounted at /mnt/boot
  3. sda2 - 1G-100% ext4 for root filesystem - mounted at /mnt

Installed with setup-disk -m sys /mnt after mounting formatted partitions.

Bootloader

Using EFI with syslinux - Alpine Linux Wiki

XFCE4 Configuration

Dumped from ~/.config/xfce4: config-xfce4.tar.gz

Alpine World

Alpine /etc/apk/world file: world.gz

Wallpaper

Author: unknown, image found on many sites reposting wallpapers without credits :-(