There have been many changes made to make the Red Hat Linux installation process easier. Here's a list:
Let's take a look at each one in a bit more detail.
The Red Hat Linux 5.1 Installation Guide has been improved with:
The installation program can now use both BOOTP and DHCP to obtain network information during the installation. Of course, it is still possible to manually enter this information manually.
Most dialog boxes displayed during the installation process now have a Back button, making it possible to fix many of those ``Oops -- I didn't want to do that'' problems.
The installation program now gives you the option of making a boot diskette (containing a copy of the installed kernel and all modules required to boot your system). The boot diskette can also be used to load a rescue diskette (described in Section 1.2.2).
The installation program is now internationalized, and supports a variety of different languages. The first question asked by the installation program is for the desired language; all screens after that are presented in the language selected by the installer. In addition, information from RPM packages that have been internationalized will be displayed in the appropriate language.
When partitioning drives using fdisk, a new method of specifying partition mount points is available. Similar to Disk Druid, it provides a concise view of all available partitions.
Red Hat Linux 5.1 once again supports installation from an SMB shared volume. This makes it possible to perform an installation on networks where there is no FTP or NFS server, but there is an SMB-capable system available.