Mount your own ISO or reinstall your VPS

Two ways to start with a clean slate or install something special.

Reinstall

Open your VPS in My WebOké and choose the Advanced tab. Under Reinstall, click Reinstall.... Choose an operating system, a new root password and optionally an SSH key, and click Erase everything and reinstall. You confirm this with your WebOké password. After a few minutes, you'll have a fresh installation. Note: everything on your VPS will be erased, including snapshots. Your IP address stays the same. Make a backup beforehand if you want to keep anything.

Attaching an ISO

Want to install it yourself, for example with your own disk layout, or boot a recovery environment? Then attach an ISO as a virtual CD. You do this in the Advanced tab, under Attach ISO. Choose an ISO under Available ISOs.

• Attach: the ISO is in the CD drive, but your VPS still boots from the disk as usual.
• Attach and boot from ISO: your VPS shuts down and boots from the ISO. You confirm this with Attach and restart.
• Detach (under Currently attached): the ISO is removed and your VPS boots from the disk again. Don't forget to do this afterwards.

We offer a list of installation ISOs, including Debian and AlmaLinux. Is your operating system not listed? Then use weboke-netboot.iso: with it you can install Fedora, Arch Linux, Alpine, openSUSE and Ubuntu, among others, directly from the internet. You can read how that works in Installing a different operating system on your VPS yourself (WebOké netboot).

Installing it yourself: network settings

A custom installation doesn't get its network settings automatically. Enter the following manually during installation:

• IP address: your VPS IP, with netmask 255.255.252.0 (/22)
• Gateway: 185.158.164.1
• DNS servers: 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9
• IPv6 address: shown in your VPS screen (2a07:ae80:100:0: followed by your IPv4 with colons), with prefix /29
• IPv6 gateway: 2a07:ae80::1

Then also install the qemu-guest-agent, so that disk usage and setting the password work in your VPS screen.

Want to learn more? Take the free course VPS and Linux server management, lesson 4.3 Lifecycle and release upgrades.