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+credits: https://gist.github.com/encombhat/e49301b673bd39862251a16c9bcd6ba5
+
+in Oracle's distro: curl -sSL [NYI] | sh
+
+````sh
+cd /tmp
+wget https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.13/releases/aarch64/alpine-virt-3.13.5-aarch64.iso
+dd if=alpine-virt-3.13.5-aarch64.iso of=/dev/sda
+sync
+reboot
+````
+
+in Alpine w/ Console access:
+````sh
+echo "auto eth0" > /etc/network/interfaces
+echo "iface eth0 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces
+ifup eth0
+````
+once you have access to internet: curl -sSL [NYI] | sh
+````sh
+echo "auto eth0" > /etc/network/interfaces
+echo "iface eth0 inet dhcp" >> /etc/network/interfaces
+ifup eth0
+mkdir /media/setup
+cp -a /media/sda/* /media/setup
+mkdir /lib/setup
+cp -a /.modloop/* /lib/setup
+/etc/init.d/modloop stop
+umount /dev/sda
+mv /media/setup/* /media/sda/
+mv /lib/setup/* /.modloop/
+setup-apkrepos
+sed -i "/community/s/^#//g" /etc/apk/repositories
+apk update
+apk add dosfstools e2fsprogs libarchive-tools pacman arch-install-scripts
+````
+use any partition program to obtain something like this:
+````
+Disk /dev/sda:
+Disklabel type: gpt
+
+Device       Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
+/dev/sda1  1050624 419430366 418379743 199.5G Linux filesystem
+/dev/sda15    2048   1050623   1048576   512M EFI System
+````
+
+mount and install: 
+````sh 
+mkfs.vfat /dev/sda15
+mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
+mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
+mkdir -p /mnt/boot
+mount /dev/sda15 /mnt/boot
+cd /mnt
+wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz
+bsdtar -xpf /mnt/ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz -C /mnt
+genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
+arch-chroot /mnt/
+pacman-key --init
+pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
+pacman -Syu efibootmgr
+bootctl install
+echo "title   Arch Linux
+linux   /Image
+initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
+options root=PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sda1) rw" > /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
+````