Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with error "no such option: --percent"

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Issue

  • During installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 using a kickstart file, anaconda fails with an error as follows.
The following error was found while parsing the kickstart configuration file:
The following problem occurred on line 33 of the kickstart file:

no such option: --percent

install exited abnormally [1/1]
The system will be rebooted when you press Ctrl-C on Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
  • The partitioning is as follows.
ignoredisk --only-use=sda
clearpart --drives=sda --all --initlabel
zerombr
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" crashkernel=auto"
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=1024
part pv.01 --size=1 --grow
part swap --percent=2048
volgroup volgroup00 pv.01
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --vgname=volgroup00  --size=1 --name=root --grow --percent=70
logvol /tmp --fstype=ext4 --vgname=volgroup00 --size=1 --name=tmp --grow --percent=10
logvol /var --fstype=ext4 --vgname=volgroup00 --size=1 --name=var --grow --percent=20

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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