Distributions

Prebuilt distribution options

Preseed/Kickstart/installerconfig files used and other source material
This can be installed directly from the latest management console using option 9.

• Arch Linux (built from the 2019.05.02 installer, HVM only) (updated May 10, 2019)
• CentOS 6 (updated Jul 13, 2018)
• CentOS 7 (updated Dec 7, 2018)
• CentOS 7 with distribution Docker preinstalled (updated May 9, 2019)
• Debian Jessie 8 (updated Apr 13, 2019)
• Debian Jessie 8 with SysVinit (updated Apr 13, 2019)
• Debian Stretch 9 (updated Feb 14, 2019)
• Debian Stretch 9 with SysVinit (updated Feb 14, 2019)
• Fedora 29 (updated Nov 13, 2018)
• Fedora 30 (HVM only) (updated May 10, 2019)
• FreeBSD 11.2 (HVM only, BETA - static IPv6 must be manually configured - prefixlen is 64, GW is <prefix>::1) (updated Dec 21, 2018)
• FreeBSD 12.0 (HVM only, BETA - static IPv6 must be manually configured - prefixlen is 64, GW is <prefix>::1) (updated Dec 21, 2018)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with ifupdown (updated May 25, 2019)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with distribution Docker preinstalled (updated May 25, 2019)
• Ubuntu Disco 19.04 with ifupdown (updated May 9, 2019)
• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (updated Feb 14, 2019)

Netboot Installers

Instead of manually downloading a netboot installer or using one of our prebuilt images, you may interactively use a netboot installer we already downloaded. These may be accessed using option 6 from the latest management console. Here is a full list of available netboot installers:

• Alpine Linux 3.9.2 (HVM only) (Apr 13, 2019)
• Arch Linux 2019.05.02 (HVM only) (May 10, 2019)
• Centos 6 (Jul 13, 2018)
• Centos 7 (Dec 7, 2018)
• Debian Jessie 8 (Apr 13, 2019)
• Debian Stretch 9 (Feb 14, 2019)
• Fedora 29 (May 24, 2019)
• Fedora 30 (HVM only) (May 10, 2019)
• FreeBSD 11.2 (HVM only) (Dec 21, 2018)
• FreeBSD 12.0 (HVM only) (Dec 21, 2018)
• NetBSD 7.2 (PV only) (September 19, 2018)
• NetBSD 8.0 (PV only) (July 23, 2018)
• NixOS 19.03 (HVM only) (May 9, 2019)
• OpenBSD 6.5 (HVM only) (May 9, 2019)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 (May 25, 2019)
• Ubuntu Disco 19.04 (May 9, 2019)
• Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (Feb 14, 2019)
• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (Feb 14, 2019)

Netboot Installers and Paravirtualized mode

For PV VPS's, at the end of the install either you must have the file (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst present to boot with grub legacy (pvgrub), or you must have a grub2 config file and switch to booting with grub 2. For more information on grub 2 see here.
Here are some notes on making your system bootable in PV mode:

• CentOS 6 - no special install instructions
• CentOS 7 - switch to grub2 after install
• Debian Jessie 8 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install
• Fedora 29 - switch to grub2 after install
• NetBSD 7.2
• NetBSD 8.0
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install
• Ubuntu Disco 19.04 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install
• Ubuntu Trusty 14.04
• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install

Notes for Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 and Ubuntu Disco 19.04

Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Disco originally shipped with systemd-networkd. We have disabled it in our images, in favor of the ifupdown scheme used by many other supported distributions.

Additionally, as of May 26th 2019, our pre-built Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Bionic with Docker preinstalled are built with a 5.0 kernel.