Cannot %include in CentOS 5.5 kickstart

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Chris Lumens <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:

>> ># This does not work
>> >%include /tmp/drvdisk
>> >
>> ># This works
>> >#driverdisk
>> >--source=nfs:10.0.4.157:/srv/cobbler/RHEL5.5_x86_402_409_410_DD.img
>
>My explanation about the graphical/text commands applies to driverdisk
>as well.  It's processed by loader, and loader does not understand
>%include.  The good news is this is fixed in F15 (therefore, RHEL7 -
>yow!), the bad news is I'm not going to be able to backport this fix to
>RHEL5 or RHEL6.  It's just too invasive.

It's good that it will be fixed, and I wouldn't expect a backport.  But it
would have saved me a few days if this had been documented somewhere -
it's not mentioned under either driverdisk or %include in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_2._Kickstart_Options