Installation guide

Q:
A:
I'm getting an "Internal Server Error" complaining about ASCII when I try to edit the
kickstart profile. What's going on?
If you have recently added some kernel parameters to your kickstart profile, you might find that
when you attempt to View a List of Kickstart Profiles that you get the following Internal
Server Error:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013'
This error occurs because some text in the profile is not being recognized correctly.
To resolve the issue:
1. Ssh directly onto the Satellite server as the root user:
# ssh [e-mail]
2. Find the kickstart profile that is causing the problem by looking at the dates of the files in
/var/lib/cobbler/config/profiles.d and locating the one that was edited most
recently:
# ls -l /var/lib/cobbler/config/profiles.d/
3. Open the profile in your preferred text editor, and locate the following text:
\u2013hostname
Change the entry to read:
--hostname
4. Save changes to the profile and close the file.
5. Restart the Red Hat Satellite services to pick up the updated profile:
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