Hi Joseph

  Here is my original post:
  I'm having a problem with setting up a kickstart environment based on CentOS 5.2 x86_64, on a Sun X2200 M2 server (both the server and the client in the kickstart environment are Sun X2200 M2 systems): the first attempt to load stage2.img fails with the error screen: "unable to retrieve http://192.168.11.1/source/images/stage2.img". Pressing the "OK" button brings up the "HTTP Setup"  screen with "Website name: 192.168.11.1" and "CentOS directory: /source" if I press OK it successfully loads stage2.img file and continues with the kickstart installation to a successful completion.
I checked the apache logs on 192.168.11.1 and there is no attempt by the client to even load stage2.img before it prompts for the error.
  Has anyone encounter this problem and has a solution for it?

  A few more things I learned since the post: sniffing the network showed that no traffic is received on the server from the requesting client prior to me pressing the 'OK' button in the HTTP setup window. What more I don't think that Linux (or in this case anaconda) will remap ETH devices to NICs on the same run (which is what is described above).
2 more things I found working on the problem during the thread exchange: 1 - eth0 network statement didn't have '--onboot yes' directive. 2 - While PXE was Telling the kernel to autoconfigure eth0. The kickstart configuration file was telling it configure eth0 statically. These 2 issues have been fixed but I still see this happening sporadically. In one of my attempts I did instruct PXE to pass static IP configuration to the kernel, but that worsened the problem and the clients failed to get the kickstart file altogether.

My configuration files are as follows:
pxe (for node3):
        append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=bootif noapic acpi=off ks=http://192.168.11.1/kickstart/n03.ks
        ipappend 2

kickstart file (for node3):
network --device eth0 --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --hostname n003.example.com
network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname n003.example.com
network --device eth2 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname n003.example.com
network --device eth3 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname n003.example.com part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
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Paolo