diff --git a/setup-alpine.in b/setup-alpine.in
index fb40e8a3d565a5e359a34e4766d125ce1dbd24bf..a246ca00e04185353c09baa09767997d9056397f 100644
--- a/setup-alpine.in
+++ b/setup-alpine.in
@@ -72,5 +72,7 @@ _hn=${_hn%%.*}
 sed -i -e "s/^127\.0\.0\.1.*/127.0.0.1\t${_hn}.${_dn:-$(get_fqdn)} ${_hn} localhost.localdomain localhost/" /etc/hosts
 
 $PREFIX/sbin/setup-apkrepos
-$PREFIX/sbin/setup-disk -q
+
+DEFAULT_DISK=none \
+	$PREFIX/sbin/setup-disk -q
 
diff --git a/setup-disk.in b/setup-disk.in
index 947ba40a26b214979b62e1fcf5c1653e097660c3..9d073ec91b0a5c2bd070e3519c61ad58a8e95f0d 100644
--- a/setup-disk.in
+++ b/setup-disk.in
@@ -781,12 +781,13 @@ ask_disk() {
 	local i=
 	shift 2
 	answer=
+	local default_disk=${DEFAULT_DISK:-$1}
 
 	while ! all_in_list "$answer" $@ "none" "abort"; do
 		echo "Available disks are:"
 		show_disk_info "$@"
-		echon "$prompt [$1] "
-		default_read answer $1
+		echon "$prompt [$default_disk] "
+		default_read answer $default_disk
 		case "$answer" in
 			'abort') exit 0;;
 			'none') return 0;;