![]() ![]() Put it on your Kindleįirst make sure you have enough space on your Kindle (The default size for alpine.ext3 is 2.0GB), you can check through SSH or using Kterm like so: Run "./create_release.sh" to create a release ("alpine.zip") just as from the release downloads that has all the neccessary files for the kindle included. After that you should end up with a "alpine.ext3" file. You can have a look around and tweak whatever you want, and with "exit" the script unmounts your fresh image and terminates. Finally you can execute it, and after a very short while you should be dropped into a shell inside Alpine. Then have a look at the script especially at the configuration part (top). All you need to install is qemu-user-static to execute arm software, but that should be in the repositories of your distro in most cases. Creating your own doesn't take long either, and if you have a linux computer it's pretty easy. You can either download an image at the releases page, or create your own fresh and possibly customized one with the help of a script. You'll also need KUAL as application launcher, Kterm to start Alpine on the go without a computer, and USBNetworking for SSH access during installation. ![]() You can find more information in the mobileread forums and mobileread wiki. How that exactly works depends on your model of Kindle as well as the firmware version. The default password of the user "alpine" is "alpine". It might even be possible to brick the Kindle!!! Kual has an option to show the USBNetwork status, so check that beforehand if you plan on doing SSH while Alpine runs. When Alpine and the computer write on the userstore partition (partition 4) at the same time, it will be destroyed, and you need to fix that partition to get your Kindle working again. WHILE ALPINE IS RUNNING / THE IMAGE IS MOUNTED, DO NOT CONNECT YOUR KINDLE TO THE COMPUTER WITHOUT USBNETWORK ENABLED! The image resides in /mnt/us, and that is your usb mass storage location. Use the KUAL Launcher to deploy Alpine Linux on your Kindle.Your Kindle stays fully functional to buy & read books. To make better use of that one can utilize a full blown Linux distro including a proper desktop environment through chroot. Kindles run a Linux operating system with X11 and everything on board already. (More pictures (not up to date though)) Overview So far this has been tested on Paperwhite 3 only, but it should work on any Kindle (not Kindle Fire though) that has a touchscreen and enough Flash/RAM (At least enough space beside your books/documents to save a >=2GB file and at least 512MiB RAM). Here you find a set of utilities to get Alpine Linux running on Kindles. ![]()
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