On Sat, 21 May 2005 Christian.Rohrmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >I extracted the commandline options like this: >ip=`grep ip /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*ip=//' |sed 's/ .*//'` Excessive sloping matchstick substitutions in sed make my eyes water - I find it conceptually easier to break at whitespace into separate lines: $ busybox tr -s ' ' '\n' < /proc/cmdline | busybox grep ^ip= One can of course remove the "busybox" wrapper in the kickstart environment itself, although it doesn't hurt. Cheers, Phil