Reinstall

Reinstalling replaces a disk with a fresh operating system or one of your templates.

Danger

Reinstalling erases the selected disk or the boot disk by default. Other disks on the instance are kept. Take a backup of anything you need first.

From the Install tab

1. Head over to the instance list and open your instance
2. Select the “Install” tab
3. Under “OS”, pick an image on the “OS Template” tab, or one of yours on “Custom Template”
4. Hit “Install”
5. Confirm

This always reinstalls the boot disk and starts the instance afterwards.

From the Advanced menu

1. Head over to the instance list and open your instance
2. Hit “Reinstall” in the “Advanced” menu
3. Choose the disk to reinstall, or leave it empty for the boot disk
4. Hit “Next”
5. Choose a template
6. Hit “Finish”

Use this to reinstall a disk other than the boot disk. The instance starts afterwards only if it was running before.

After a reinstall

• A running instance is forcefully stopped for the operation.
• IP addresses stay the same.
• The root password stays the same. To change it, open “Advanced” and hit “Reset Password” once the reinstall has completed.
• All of the workspace’s SSH keys are installed again. Read more in SSH Keys.
• SSH on your computer shows a host key warning on the next connection. Read more in Remote Host Identification Has Changed.

The “Snapshots” option on the Install tab rolls a disk back to a snapshot instead. Read more in Snapshots.