Jul 16, 2026, 5:03 PM

Building #smolBSD on #Alpine is an adventure: one first needs to edit Makefile and replace --quiet with -s (Busybox's sha256sum doesn't recognize the former option), then edit mkimg.sh and remove --show from losetup options (again, a Busybox quirk). Even then, the build is only mostly successful, and my attempt of running a full live setup... makes me think I should have RTFM for #NetBSD first.

GNU nano screen, editing Makefile of smolBSD, highlighting option --quiet of sha256sum, should be changed to -s for Alpine Linux.

GNU nano screen, editing mkimg.sh, highlighting --show option to be removed from losetup so that making the image works on Alpine.

bmake error, kernel is still using the old partition table, partprobe needed (termux screen)

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