Reboot, Reinstall... CentOS?

I've been having some strange issues with Shampoo, one of the two main servers for mee.nu. I decided that I'd better get Softlayer (our hosting company) to do a reinstall, because these issues now include not being able to start Apache.

So I opened a support ticket, saying that the server was screwed up, and could they do a memory test and if that doesn't show anything, reinstall Linux.

And they responded saying that this will cost $3, and I said, well, fine, and they said, hey, your server is screwed up, you'll need to reinstall Linux.

And I said, huh?

And they said, there's a button in our management site. Choose the server, and you can repartition your drives and reinstall the operating system.

And I said, cooool.

And did just that.

Update: It still doesn't work, but hey, I got to reinstall the operating system from the other side of the planet.

Update: The network ports weren't autonegotiating properly, which was causing collisions and errors, which was causing problems with automatic RPM downloads, which was screwing up the install process.  Fixed.

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