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Reimaging Your Machine

At any time you wish you may reimage, or reinstall, your machine. This
action is irreversible, and will mean that your machine loses all data
stored upon it.

The end result of a reimage will be that your machine is running a pristine
installation.

If there are local files upon your machine please ensure you have them
backed up prior to your reimage.

To backup files you might want to take advantage of the free backup
space
which is provided with each of our machines.

Getting Started

Once you’ve connected to your console shell you may begin
the reimaging process by pressing “Ctrl+p Ctrl+o” to invoke the
actions menu.

From the actions menu choose “Reimage your machine”, and you’ll be guided through the process.

Reimaging illustrated

Here is each step illustrated with an explanation:

Confirm Your Intention To Reimage

While there are further questions, you need to confirm that you understand
your server will be wiped clean.

Confirm1

Select Your Distribution

Pick whichever distribution you would like – if you’re not familiar with
Linux you probably want the Bytemark Symbiosis distribution.

Choose-distro

Enter Your New Root Password

You will be asked to enter your root password twice so you don’t
accidentally mistype it and lock yourself out:

Root-passwd1

Reimaging Begins

Finally the process begins:

Reinstalling

Once the process has completed, which will take approximately 5 minutes, your server will restart automatically.

Advanced reimaging

For dedicated server customers only (at present), if you want more control
over the reimaging process, you can reimage your server from the command
line and specify a few more options. See our reimaging reference
page
for more information on how to do this.

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