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One-click OS reinstallation Script (17 Linux + Windows)

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  • diwakerddiwakerd Member

    its good i tried it on dedicated server and its better and easier than ipmi to reinstall any operating system

    Thanked by 1vicaya
  • ChunkserveChunkserve Member, Patron Provider

    @bin456789 said:
    Hey folks.
    I've created a powerful one-click OS reinstallation script, and I'm excited to introduce it to you all.

    Highlights

    • One-click reinstall VPS to Linux

      • Alpine, Debian, Kali, Ubuntu, CentOS, Anolis, RedHat, AlmaLinux, Rocky, OpenCloudOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, openEuler, openSUSE, NixOS, Arch Linux, Gentoo

    • One-click reinstall VPS to Windows

      • Uses the official ISO for installation instead of custom images. The script automatically retrieves the ISO link and installs Virtio and other drivers.

    • Supports installation in any direction, i.e., Linux to Linux, Linux to Windows, Windows to Windows, Windows to Linux

    • No need to input IP parameters; automatically recognizes dynamic and static IPs, supports /32, /128, gateway outside subnet, IPv6 only, dual NIC and other special network configurations
    • Specially optimized for low-spec servers, requires less memory than the official netboot
    • Supports BIOS and EFI boot, and ARM architecture
    • No homemades image included, all resources are obtained in real-time from source sites

    Usages

    https://github.com/bin456789/reinstall
    https://github.com/bin456789/reinstall/blob/main/README.en.md

    Looks awesome! Keep up the good work :)
    Maybe some option to preinstall services on Linux would be a cool feature for the enduser? (like. webserver, FTP server or hosting panels)?

  • budi1413budi1413 Member

    @donli said:
    Well I was able to install Windows 110 Pro from Debian on my VPS using b this script. Very impressive!

    i can even install windows 11 ltsc. awesome script for sure.

  • QuickyQuicky Member

    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

  • bin456789bin456789 Member

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    it may not work on dedicated server because the vary of network card driver

  • lala_thlala_th Member

    @bin456789 said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    it may not work on dedicated server because the vary of network card driver

    Is it possible to set up custom variables like RAID0/RAID1/LVM?

  • bin456789bin456789 Member

    @lala_th said:

    @bin456789 said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    it may not work on dedicated server because the vary of network card driver

    Is it possible to set up custom variables like RAID0/RAID1/LVM?

    no. because i dont use them

  • jolo22jolo22 Member

    So cool!!

  • donlidonli Member

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    Can you get a consol to see what happened?

  • R4ainR4ain Member

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    Have you checked novnc ? If provided

  • alifyaalifya Member

    Great job man. worked perfectly on Digitalocean

    Thanked by 1GPoe
  • QuickyQuicky Member

    @R4ain said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    Have you checked novnc ? If provided

    I cant access anything after, no ssh no rdp, i need to reinstall it from ovh panel.

  • R4ainR4ain Member

    @Quicky said:

    @R4ain said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    Have you checked novnc ? If provided

    I cant access anything after, no ssh no rdp, i need to reinstall it from ovh panel.

    To check vnc : https://support.us.ovhcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002208690-How-to-Access-a-Public-Cloud-Instance-via-VNC

    Hope this helps

  • QuickyQuicky Member

    @R4ain said:

    @Quicky said:

    @R4ain said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    Have you checked novnc ? If provided

    I cant access anything after, no ssh no rdp, i need to reinstall it from ovh panel.

    To check vnc : https://support.us.ovhcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002208690-How-to-Access-a-Public-Cloud-Instance-via-VNC

    Hope this helps

    Kimsufi does not offer that

  • fengzhengfengzheng Member

    is it suitable for digitalocean?

  • tronyxtronyx Member

    @fengzheng said:
    is it suitable for digitalocean?

    Yes, even @alifya confirmed that few posts behind.

  • kevindskevinds Member, LIR

    @bin456789 said: Alpine, Debian, Kali, Ubuntu, CentOS, Anolis, RedHat, AlmaLinux, Rocky, OpenCloudOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, openEuler, openSUSE, NixOS, Arch Linux, Gentoo

    Raspbian?

  • budi1413budi1413 Member

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    add --iso 'iso.url' manually

  • QuickyQuicky Member

    @budi1413 said:

    @Quicky said:
    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    i downloaded reinstall.sh

    than

    bash reinstall.sh windows --image-name 'Windows 11 Pro' --lang en-us

    it said

    windows
    Username: administrator

    Reboot to start the installation.

    i did reboot and after few hours RDP and SSH does not work. Did i miss something?

    add --iso 'iso.url' manually

    Tried and same result.

  • dev_vpsdev_vps Member
    edited January 2025

    @Quicky said:

    I tried on kimsufi and don't seem to work?

    How to Install Windows Server OS on OVH, Kimsufi, & SoYouStart Dedicated Server
    https://alstonantony.com/install-windows-on-server/

  • YassGamesYassGames Member
    edited January 2025

    This is awesome, thanks much for sharing it. The only one had trouble installing it on is from ihostart.

    bash reinstall.sh ubuntu 24.04 --minimal

    Works on my boxes from hosthatch, hostbrr, racknerd, servarica, greencloud, hostthebest, and aquatis.

    Not sure why they don't work with the ihostart ones. The vnc shows it installing and everything working properly until it reboots and then it just reports a kernel panic and unable to mount root fs

    Thanked by 1servarica_hani
  • tsusutsusu Member
    edited January 2025

    How does this sorcery work? I thought you needed an external device to install a new OS?

  • donlidonli Member

    @tsusu said:
    How does this sorcery work? I thought you needed an external device to install a new OS?

    It's a bash shell script so the sorcery is completely open to inspection and modification.

  • cmeerwcmeerw Member

    @tsusu said:
    How does this sorcery work? I thought you needed an external device to install a new OS?

    In the case of Ubuntu, it boots into an Alpine (ramdisk) live image via netboot.xyz and uses that to download an Ubuntu cloud image that it writes onto the disk and configures the OS.

  • dlman_1999dlman_1999 Member

    massgrave.dev has some images to try as well :D

  • kevindskevinds Member, LIR
    edited January 2025

    @tsusu said:
    How does this sorcery work? I thought you needed an external device to install a new OS?

    Yes.. But http(s) servers can count as an external device.

    VPS providers where you have console access are easy to replace the OS on.. Others that you are not given a console (VNC or text) are a little more challenging. Amount of RAM in the system matters too depending on the OS you are trying to install.

    For any system you have console access you can copy netboot.xyz to and install a new system.

    I even had a script that would reinstall Raspbian (and enable SSHd) but it stopped working when they changed some partition sizes, now need to download, extract, mount, add the customization, unmount and dd the image overtop the existing OS, force reboot and it should work.

    Always more challenging to reinstall an OS on remote bare-metal systems without IPMI haha

  • kevindskevinds Member, LIR

    @dlman_1999 said:
    massgrave.dev has some images to try as well :D

    With the hard-stance against 'nulled' plugins on LET, I'm going to guess that link isn't allowed to be recommended either.

  • dev_vpsdev_vps Member

    @kevinds said:

    @dlman_1999 said:
    massgrave.dev has some images to try as well :D

    With the hard-stance against 'nulled' plugins on LET, I'm going to guess that link isn't allowed to be recommended either.

    and pretty serious security risk

  • maxexxmaxexx Member

    Is it possible to install Linux Mint desktop using this script?

  • dev_vpsdev_vps Member

    @maxexx said:
    Is it possible to install Linux Mint desktop using this script?

    bash script for debian 11

    #!/bin/bash

# Ensure the script is run as root
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Please run as root"
  exit
fi

# Backup current sources.list
cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak

# Add Linux Mint repositories
echo "deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxmint.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.list
echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.list

# Import Linux Mint GPG key
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3EE67F3D0FF405B2

# Update package list
apt-get update

# Install Linux Mint base packages
apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends mint-meta-cinnamon

# Optionally, install additional packages
# apt-get install --yes mint-meta-codecs

# Clean up
apt-get autoremove --yes
apt-get clean

# Reboot the system
echo "Installation complete. Rebooting..."
reboot
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