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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 6.x	yes	yes	yes
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux/OEL 5.x	yes	yes	yes
Fedora 7 - 17	yes	yes	yes
OpenSUSE 10.3 - 11.x	yes	yes	yes
RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux 4.x	yes	no	no
RHEL/CentOS 3.x	yes	no	no
Debian 5, 6	yes	no	no
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 - 12.04	yes	yes	yes
Mandrake 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2	yes	no	no
Mandriva 2005, 2006.0, 2007.0, 2008.0	yes	no	no
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 7, 2008	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-install

oz-customize

oz-generate-icicle

oz-cleanup-cache