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Xing Zhang edited this page Mar 28, 2018 · 20 revisions

Oz is a tool for automatically installing operating systems into files with only minimal up-front input from the user.

For each type of guest operating system, Oz supports up to three operations: operating system installation, operating system customization, and ICICLE (manifest generation). More information about these operations is available on the Oz Architecture page.

Operating system Install Customize ICICLE
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux/OEL 7.x yes yes yes
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux/OEL 6.x yes yes yes
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux/OEL 5.x yes yes yes
Fedora 7 - 26 yes yes yes
OpenSUSE 10.3 - 42.x yes yes yes
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux 4.x yes no no
RHEL/CentOS 3.x yes no no
Debian 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 yes yes yes
Fedora Core 1 - 6 yes no no
Red Hat Linux (RHL) 7 - 9 yes no no
RHEL 2.1 U1 - U6 yes no no
Ubuntu 6.06 - 17.10 yes yes yes
Mandrake 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1 yes no no
Mandriva 2005, 2006.0, 2007.0, 2008.0 yes no no
Mageia 2, 3, 4, 4.1, 5 yes no yes
FreeBSD 10, 11 yes no no
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 7, 2008, 2012, 8, 8.1, 10, 2016 yes no no

NOTE: Support for new operating systems and revisions is manually added, so when new versions come out Oz needs to be updated to be able to install the new version. If the new minor version is sufficiently similar to the last one, then telling Oz to use the old one with a new CD may work, but this is not guaranteed.

Additional information

Running Oz as non root

Oz Download

Oz Architecture

Oz Advanced

Oz Examples

Oz Network Configuration

Oz template description language

Man pages

oz-install

oz-customize

oz-generate-icicle

oz-cleanup-cache