For the uninitiated, the use of disk druid is non-obvious. The documentation on the partitioning process during installation is very terse. It would make sense to repurpose the far superior documentation on this subject from Fedora: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/ch-disk-partitioning. html#sn-partitioning-general That page, and the subsequent page on Disk Druid specifically, is very clear and more than sufficient to get a new user through the process.
thanks Gunnar. queueing this for RHEL5.3.