Installation guide

Installation Methods
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Further Reading
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Installation Guide
1
provides detailed documentation of the
installer and the installation process.
2.1. Installation Methods
The installer provides three main interfaces to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux: kickstart, the graphical
installer and the text-based installer.
2.1.1. Graphical Installer
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux graphical installer steps the user through the major steps involved in
preparing a system for installation. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation graphical installer
introduces major usability enhancements for disk partitioning and storage configuration.
The graphical installer now allows a user to choose basic storage devices or specialized storage
devices. Basic Storage Devices typically do not need any additional configuration settings before the
device is usable. A new interface has been implemented for configuring specialized storage devices.
Firmware RAID devices, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) devices, multipath devices, and other
storage area network (SAN) devices can now be easily configured using the new interface.
Figure 1. Specialized Storage Devices Configuration
The interface for choosing partitioning layouts has been enhanced, providing detailed descriptions and
diagrams for each default partitioning layout