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. For the disk configuration step, default users are presented with only the Disk Druid for partitioning. Disk Druid provides a simplified interface to the mundane task of partitioning disks and doesn't require you to memorize partition types or single letter commands.