Live ISO

For this tutorial, you'll need to download the base image from Void's official download page, which can be found here. You'll have to choose between the glibc one and the musl one.

One question people make often is why the live ISO image is "not up-to-date". Void is a rolling release distro. It's different from Ubuntu, which has release cycles. Software in Void is constantly getting updated, so regardless of how old the image is, you'll end up downloading and installing the most recent packages there exists in the Void repos.

Note: A possible issue in old live ISO images is lack of support for most recent hardware. This is uncommon to happen, but if it does, resort to official channels for help.

Logging in

There are two available users, root (superuser) and anon. The password of both is voidlinux (it might vary from image to image, but it's always explict in the starting screen). I prefer to log in as superuser so I don't have to type sudo all the time. Also, I highly recommend that you run exec bash since it is a little more comfortable to work with than dash, the default shell for the live ISO image.

Configuring keyboard layout

If you need a different layout other than en_US during the install process, you can change it using loadkeys, for example:

# loadkeys $(ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/**/*.map.gz | grep br-abnt2)

Connecting to the internet

If you're connect via ethernet, you're good to go, since the live ISO image already runs the DHCP service by default. However, if you're on Wi-Fi, you'll need additional setup. For example, to configure it for interface wlan0:

# cp /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf
# wpa_passphrase $SSID $PASS >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf
# ip link set up wlan0
# sv restart dhcpcd