Our evolutionary process of expanding the scope of this Installation Guide continues. As before, we've updated the chapters related to the actual installation process. We've also updated the New Features chapter to reflect all the good stuff that's been added to Red Hat Linux 5.1. We consider this to be ``business as usual''.
We've also made some changes as a direct result of customer feedback. We've added an appendix containing a brief description of nearly every package included in Red Hat Linux. So now you'll be able to browse through the package descriptions before you start the installation, and decide what you're going to want on your system. You can even use it as a way of seeing what your newly-installed Red Hat Linux system can do. The Red Hat Linux Frequently Asked Questions (Appendix E) is all-new, and covers many more subjects than the previous version.
Another change we've made is to include more information on post-installation issues. For all the people that sent mail to [email protected] saying, ``Everything installed just fine, and the system rebooted. What do I do now?'', this chapter is for you. We'll be expanding this chapter in the future, so if you can think of something we should include, please let us know.
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Thanks go out to the past authors of this manual. A great deal of their work is still here. A great, big ``Thank You'' is also owed to the Red Hat Linux 5.1 development team for putting up with the many questions, comments, and pleading requests for reviews of this manual. Without them, I wouldn't be here writing this, you wouldn't be there reading this, and things wouldn't be nearly as much fun. Thanks, guys!
Thanks are also due to the many readers of the 5.0 Installation Guide that took the time to send corrections, suggestions, and even the occasional ``well done''. I've tried to incorporate as much of your feedback as possible (pagecount and deadlines permitting). Keep the feedback coming -- it's the only way I know whether you're getting what you need from our documentation!
Last but far from least is the support group at Red Hat Software. They have given many insightful suggestions regarding this manual, based on extensive experience with thousands of Red Hat Linux customers. So if you find yourself breezing through the installation chapters, it's due in no small part to their input. I thank them.