hi all
well the story is like this, iam trying different types of setups to learn more and get more experiance, install method is from hard drive,now the install files are 3 iso images ( yarrow-i386-disc1.iso,yarrow-i386-disc2.iso etc...) i made a partition just for it under [b/]dev/hdb2[/b] type
ext3 under mount point
/isos trough the fedora install,now i removed grub from the mbr (didnt touch the partition's where fc1 was installed (/ root folder,boot,swap).) , then i use the fc cd 1 (linux askmethod command.) to choose the install type from hard disk(could use boot.iso image from floppy ,doesnt matter atm. ) then i choose the hard disk location where the iso images are (i.e. /dev/hdb2)but it sais it cant find the install files ,so i reinstalled grub tryed the same method agian (fc1 linux askmethod) and now it found it. meaning fc1 saw the iso images only when grub was installed.
so my questions are:
why did fc1 saw the iso images only when grub was installed?
how i suppost to do clean install if fc1 needs grub in order to see the .iso files?
is it better to extract the iso files into folder's (cd 1,cd 2 etc..) will the install will see it the install files then?
or is the problem isnt in grub at all but in something else?
Thx in advance u guys and sorry if my english sucks
Linux Hard Disk Info:
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Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 2628 3738 8924107+ 83 Linux<---(8 giga,ext3,mount point /isos storing the fc1 images)
/dev/hdb3 14 2562 20474842+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb5 2563 2627 522081 82 Linux swap
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