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An upgrade of Fedora Core version normally requires burning the new version’s image in a DVD or CDs.  An alternate approach to the same is upgrading by copying the same to a hard drive or a pen drive. The approach mentioned below worked very well from me for an upgrade of FC9 to FC10.

Download the new version’s (say FC 10)  iso(DVD) image and save it to a disk drive partition. I used a pen drive for the same. It works very well for filesystems viz. FAT32,ext2 and not NTFS. Copy the image file to any directory say for example /mnt/FedoraCoreDVD.iso( Assuming, that pen drive is mounted at /mnt) . Mount the iso image in a directory(any) to extract the isolinux folder.

#mount -o loop /mnt/FedoraCoreDVD.iso /home/user/Fedora/

Copy the isolinux folder and paste it inside the boot folder.

#cp -r /home/user/Fedora/isolinux /boot

Now we need to make an entry in the grub file to boot the copied isolinux folder’s install.img

# cat /etc/grub.conf

______________________________

title Fedora Upgrade
root (hd0,8) ———–> should be your  partition containing the current linux installation (0->First Hard Drive,8-> Partition number on this drive )
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz
initrd /isolinux/initrd.img
______________________________

Copy the isolinux folder also to the pen drive(/dev/sdb, mounted at /mnt in this case) and reboot the system. Select the ” Fedora Upgrade” option in grub and the normal installation/upgrade demon anaconda will start. It will ask for the option of disk partition and folder containing the iso image and iso linux folder, which is /dev/sdb1 in this case. Select the same and the upgradation works like a charm.

Advancements in technology has penetrated all domains and Bangalore traffice police is no way refrained from adopting the same. Inner ring road, one of the lone roads, situated across sparsely populated region. It connects the densely populated region, commercial Koramangala and the Old Airport Area, Domlur. This is fairly long stretch of road that give motorists and other vehicles a speed up zone to catch up with time. Owing to no residential or commercial construction on the sides, the traffic is swift moving. Unexpectedly, on a fine weekday afternoon, a vechicle loaded with gadgetry stuff was parked with lot of traffic police men in and around it. The motorist speeded up past the Koramangala-Ejipura signal   to gain an acceleration lead on the inner ring road. Whoa, why is he stopping me, I am wearing helmet, the emission test are done. Cannot escape, had to stop. Thunderbird, as the name suggests was talking to winds. The motorist was stopped by the cops.

Officer : You have over-speeded

Motorist : Hmm… I was just 70 Km/hr

Officer [Hands him a printout]:  See this. You were at 76 Km/hr. The statistics have been captured by the #@&^*#5 camera with %#6*#*9 technology. Its all given below. I will have to fine you . 300 bucks.

Poor motorist had no other option.

P.S – Identity of motorist is concealed and is of no concern with respect to the blog.

Both of these share their own importances and have wide differences in functioning, lifestyle, work culture, ambience etc. Working at each of them has its own pros and cons. Let us see what are the striking differences among them that can be of interest to you. Here onwards I shall designate MNC by M and a startup with S.

M: Large coffee machines, surplus supply of beverage, good enough for coffee/tea addicts.

S: Limited supply of beverages, may vary depending on where startup is located, its own office, or a business incubation center.

M: Manager says, you need to be in the office at 9:00AM sharp, they are aussies, ahead of us by 4.5 hrs. We need to bridge this gap. Mails need to be checked every second. Sticking your ass in the office without doing anything is the motto. Punch the clock, 9:15 hrs a day. Some companies have started a early bird offer, earlier you reach the office, say before 8:30 AM, you acquire credit points making you eligible for the lucky draw coupon of Rs 500, Rs 1000 and so on.

S: A product based startup, timings are flexible, no one is going to ask you to push your ass at 9:00AM. But you have critical goals and targets to be achieved, which are of extreme significance for the startup. Hence, you cannot simply laze around in the office. You need to get things done and if you are passionate about work, this can be your dream come true.

M: Please display your ID, where is your ID. I hate this. You are like one in a million. Just another piece of shit in the campus.

S: You know everyone else. The whole comapny is a team and you are a integral part of the company. ID card?  I don’t remember the last time I wore it. Only thing you need is the incubation center’s access card. No one is going to pester you to hang the id round the clock, as if you may be a terrorist.

M: Dress Code. This is the most fascinating part. Mondays-Tuesdays- Ultra Formal, Wed-Thurs- Mild Formals, Fridays-Freedom, but with a limit, off course. Thank god they do not have any restriction your undies.

S: Dress is not a restriction. Work is all what matters. But that doesn’t mean that you can park yourself in the office wearing your sleeping t shirt and shorts .

M: Use of brain, minimal, rather its a rare event. And if you are a fresher, I suppose you will be doomed in most of the cases, they treat you really fresh. They may put you in some low profile, time consuming work and may not listen or ascertain your technical capabilities.

S: Ideas are supposed to nurture in a startup. Brainstorming and impelmentation of cool  thoughts to reality is inevitable.

P.S. Writings here are solely based on writer’s life experience and may not match up with the real scenarios or your beliefs. Contradications are likely to occur. Comments are welcome.