Hello, all - I use the following example of code in my kickstart file, to get values from /proc/cmdline to use later on during the install: if grep -i -q "mystring[a-zA-Z0-9]" /proc/cmdline then MYSTRING=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*mystring=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` fi I think Klaus in fact gave this to me. However, I've ran into a few problems. It seems that this does not like strings with periods in them, such as an IP address. Since I know a bit less than nothing about regular expressions, I was hoping that someone could give me a hand with this. I need to modify it to allow me to assign a dotted quad string to the MYSTRING variable. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -dant