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 2020.03.01 installer, HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• CentOS 6 (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• CentOS 7 (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• CentOS 7 with distribution Docker preinstalled (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• CentOS 8 (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• CentOS 8 Stream (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Buster 10 (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Buster 10 with SysVinit (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Jessie 8 (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Jessie 8 with SysVinit (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Stretch 9 (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Stretch 9 with SysVinit (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Fedora 30 (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Fedora 31 (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• FreeBSD 11.3 (HVM only, BETA - static IPv6 must be manually configured - prefixlen is 64, GW is <prefix>::1) (updated Aug 22, 2019)
• FreeBSD 12.1 (HVM only, BETA - static IPv6 must be manually configured - prefixlen is 64, GW is <prefix>::1) (updated Nov 15, 2019)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with ifupdown (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with distribution Docker preinstalled (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Eoan 19.10 with ifupdown (HVM only) (updated Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (updated Mar 16, 2020)

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 3.11.3 (HVM only) (Feb 19, 2020)
• Arch Linux 2020.03.01 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Centos 6 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Centos 7 (Mar 16, 2020)
• Centos 8 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Buster 10 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Jessie 8 (Mar 16, 2020)
• Debian Stretch 9 (Mar 16, 2020)
• Fedora 30 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Fedora 31 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 20)
• FreeBSD 11.3 (HVM only) (Aug 22, 2019)
• FreeBSD 12.1 (HVM only) (Nov 15, 2019)
• NetBSD 8.1 (PV only) (Jun 7, 2019)
• NetBSD 9.0 (PV only) (Feb 19, 2020)
• NixOS 19.09 (HVM only) (Oct 9, 2019)
• OpenBSD 6.6 (HVM only) (Oct 17, 2019)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 (Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Eoan 19.10 (HVM only) (Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (Mar 16, 2020)
• Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (Mar 16, 2020)

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 longer available for PV
• CentOS 7 - switch to grub2 after install
• CentOS 8 - not available for PV
• Debian Jessie 8 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install
• Fedora 29 - switch to grub2 after install
• NetBSD 8.1
• NetBSD 9.0
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 - install pv-grub-menu or switch to grub2 after install
• Ubuntu Eoan 19.10 - not available for PV
• 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 Eoan 19.10

Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Eoan 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.