In RedHat 7.X one could determine the ARCH of a system by executing the following command in arch: carter@guglielmo$ rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel i686 This returns null in RedHat 9 when executed inside kickstart. Does anyone know what changed and if there are any workarounds? Thanks, mjc -- Michael J. Carter | They will only cause the lower classes to IT Team Leader | move about needlessly. -- The Duke of Space Data Systems (NIS-3) | Wellington, on early steam railroads. Los Alamos National Laboratory |