Introduction

Welcome to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide .

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Note

Although this manual reflects the most current information possible, read the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to the documentation being finalized. The Release Notes can be found on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1, online at http://www.redhat.com/docs/, or in the /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-notes-5<variant>/ directory after installation, where <variant> is Server, Client, or Desktop.

1. What's New in this Edition?

Be sure to review the Appendix A, Revision History for features and bug fixes for this manual.

Table 1. What's New in this Edition?

Feature	Change	Note
Chapter 7, Updating drivers during installation on Intel and AMD systems, Chapter 13, Updating drivers during installation on IBM POWER systems, and Section 23.1, “Driver update rpm packages”	New chapters on driver updates	Documentation of driver updates during installation and with rpm packages after installation has been completely revised and brought up-to-date.
Section 31.4, “Kickstart Options”	New option for the `bootloader` kickstart command.	`--hvargs` specifies Xen hypervisor arguments.
Section 31.5, “Package Selection”	`@Everything` no longer supported	Red Hat no longer supports installations performed with this option.