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  • Kickstart issue - "unknown command: <!DOCTYPE"

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    I'm building a kickstart server. I've got a test system to the point where it's PXE booting from the kickstart server, and got the install to the point where the manual installation screen comes up ready to do an install.

    However, when I try to add a kickstart file I'm getting the following error:

    "The following problem occurred on line 1 of the kickstart file:" "Unknown command:

    I don't have any such line in the kickstart file - this is the contents of ks.cfg:

    version=DEVEL

    System authorization information

    auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

    Use network installation

    url --url="http://10.0.0.100/rhel7-install"
    repo --name="Server-HighAvailability" --baseurl=http://10.0.0.100/rhel7-install/addons/HighAvailability
    repo --name="Server-ResilientStorage" --baseurl=http://10.0.0.100/rhel7-install/addons/ResilientStorage

    Use graphical install

    graphical

    Run the Setup Agent on first boot

    firstboot --enable
    ignoredisk --only-use=sda

    Keyboard layouts

    keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='us'

    System language

    lang en_US.UTF-8

    Network information

    network --bootproto=dhcp --device=enp0s25 --ipv6=auto --activate
    network --hostname=localhost.localdomain

    Root password

    rootpw --iscrypted $6$.81heVPe6g1IGJEZ$3UkgnUBs6cPAWeEbhK.342zPq5KsLGaV5Z45wvddJbZgz1xUfhvEKIZmthQL158hyYZpAm.LPFe6InCRhRXAx/

    System services

    services --enabled="chronyd"

    System timezone

    timezone America/New_York --isUtc

    System bootloader configuration

    bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda

    Partition clearing information

    clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

    Disk partitioning information

    part pv.545 --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=sda --size=259080
    part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=1024
    volgroup rhel_kickstart --pesize=4096 pv.545
    logvol /var/log/audit --fstype="xfs" --size=2048 --name=var_log_audit --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol /var/log --fstype="xfs" --size=5120 --name=var_log --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol /tmp --fstype="xfs" --size=3072 --name=tmp --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol swap --fstype="swap" --size=8192 --name=swap --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol / --fstype="xfs" --size=30720 --name=root --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol /var --fstype="xfs" --size=5120 --name=var --vgname=rhel_kickstart
    logvol /opt/splunk --fstype="xfs" --size=204800 --name=opt_splunk --vgname=rhel_kickstart

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