*POST UPDATED – now referring to centos6*
I get in touch with many people related to centos reinstall… I’m aware in certain conditions it’s a pain to have it rolling properly…
I do this for work, just contact me if you want it done for a small fee 😉
There are some ISPs in the dedicated servers market that are offering crappy CentOS installs…
With “crappy” I mean: broken/modifed images…
The worst example I had the opportunity to try was OVH.
OVH is in general a very good dedicated hosting provider offering very nice services at an impressive low price… but they have the bad attitude to install custom operating systems that many times cannot be reverted back to the original kernels 🙁
One of them is their CentOS 5 install… Lucky for us it’s not a big problem as, most times, it’s possible to do a clean CentOS install 😉