A home built 450 MHz Celeron 300a with 256MB of RAM and a 6 GB disk. If Red Hat didn't install on this machine, it wouldn't install anywhere. 6.1 Standard comes with an installation manual, a reference guide, a boot diskette, a CD-ROM, and three cool stickers. My computer was adorned seconds after the box was opened. Also, I had heard the new installer makes the manual superfluous.
Installation now seems more like choosing the options for a new car than anything else.
All the right questions are asked and installation now seems more like choosing the options for a new car than anything else. Users have the choice of the default installation and the expert installation. The expert mode shows you all available options to hand-pick from. Expert is also required when your hardware isn't automatically detected - the installer will then prompt you for a driver disk, much like a Windows installation. This is particularly relevant if you have a new or previously unsupported device for which drivers have only recently become available.