These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.
Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.
This is a collection of web page captures from links added to, or changed on, Wikipedia pages. The idea is to bring a reliability to Wikipedia outlinks so that if the pages referenced by Wikipedia articles are changed, or go away, a reader can permanently find what was originally referred to.
That is the setup I have on my system. You’ll need to have a second primary partition to install into–if you don’t, you can create one using a tool such as parted magic as this needs to exist before starting the installation. The installer will show your 2 Windows partitions (a small recovery partition plus the one with your Windows system)–just be careful not to install there 🙂 If you select to install the PC-BSD boot manager, it will place Windows into its boot menu for you. Note that you use F2 to boot Windows (not F1 as that is the recovery partition). An example can be seen at http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/FreeBSD_Boot_Manager.
PC-BSD Handbook in section “Writing an IMG File to Flash media” suggests using bs=5k for dd(1). That gives in my case (MacBook Pro, SanDisk 4GB) throughput of about 700 KB/s. However, using bs=102400 gives me a boost of about 5x (3-4 MB/s). I’m not sure whether this would be the case for everyone, likely not, but you can surely check out a few setups (different computers and flash medias) and amend the handbook accordingly.
[…] Canonical’s New Plan for Banshee Splashtop OS Released To the Public The Document Foundation Raises 50k in 8 Days Official Gnome 3 LiveCDs Released Ubuntu’s Indicator Applets Available for openSUSE New Firefox 4 Mobile Beta Available for Android and Maemo openSUSE 11.4 RC 2 is Out – Less than 2 weeks till Final Amazon Prime Video Streaming Works in Linux Fedora To Woo Designers With Booth at SXSW PC-BSD 8.2 Ships […]
Hi. I’ve got a very fresh experience, upgrading 8.1 to 8.2 for a friend today, x86-USB.
First, I booted into installer and chose Upgrade. After some initialisation it started uninstalling old packages and at linux-f10-ant (or something like that) the system froze. Very suspicious because it had never done so before. I retried, then tried acpi off and safe mode, unplugging peripherals, but it always ended up dead at the same step. Unfortunately, at that point the original system was already unbootable. So I booted into Live mode but when I started installation there it froze too. Then I used Live mode to get data to external disk via command line. Another complication was that in Live mode NTFS is not mounted via ntfs-3g, so not writable. Too tricky for normal users sort out.
After all data backed up I went for fresh install. That went well. One issue though was partitioning. I chose slice with old installation but wanted custom partitioning (one UFS+S and one SWAP). Selecting it did not show any partitions, so I clicked on Auto and it used the whole disk. Very bad surprise and one I nearly overlooked! What I had to do was going back, choosing Auto-partitioning and Next, then Back and changing to Custom partitioning and then I could modify default partitioning.
While I appreciate PC-BSD is getting better with each release, issues like described above are serious enough to burn common users and make them not consider PC-BSD anymore and spread bad feelings. Therefore making installation and upgrade real smooth and above all safe should be at the top of PC-BSD backlog.
Sorry to hear you are running into an upgrade problem. I’ve seen this from time-to-time, and it has something to do with a kernel panic from uninstalling various linux compat packages. Sometimes just re-running it will get it past the trouble spot. FWIW, this seems better in 9, so it may have been fixed there already.
Maybe. But launching installer from Live mode it froze immediately.
Anyway, perhaps you could improve on the rest I mentioned — using ntfs-3g in Live mode so it is actually useful for backups, providing Midnight Commander in Live mode / default install so users don’t have to get mad with command line, making sure partitioning is robust and its workflow clear and easy.
Besides, even though I selected my timezone, after installation I found it is UTC and cannot be changed from KDE control panel. This has been issue for long time and is one that users will notice immediately.
Such issues should really be of high priority because they drive potential users off before they can get hooked on other qualities of otherwise cool system.
Cheers.
Comments (10)
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by t_fridge, さっつん and tri m. saputra, PC-BSD. PC-BSD said: PC-BSD 8.2 Released: http://ht.ly/43620 […]
Are there problem with dualboot PCBSD/windows 7???
I would like use but i have need windows too…
With opensuse its all ok.
That is the setup I have on my system. You’ll need to have a second primary partition to install into–if you don’t, you can create one using a tool such as parted magic as this needs to exist before starting the installation. The installer will show your 2 Windows partitions (a small recovery partition plus the one with your Windows system)–just be careful not to install there 🙂 If you select to install the PC-BSD boot manager, it will place Windows into its boot menu for you. Note that you use F2 to boot Windows (not F1 as that is the recovery partition). An example can be seen at http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/FreeBSD_Boot_Manager.
Great! Thx!
PC-BSD Handbook in section “Writing an IMG File to Flash media” suggests using bs=5k for dd(1). That gives in my case (MacBook Pro, SanDisk 4GB) throughput of about 700 KB/s. However, using bs=102400 gives me a boost of about 5x (3-4 MB/s). I’m not sure whether this would be the case for everyone, likely not, but you can surely check out a few setups (different computers and flash medias) and amend the handbook accordingly.
[…] Canonical’s New Plan for Banshee Splashtop OS Released To the Public The Document Foundation Raises 50k in 8 Days Official Gnome 3 LiveCDs Released Ubuntu’s Indicator Applets Available for openSUSE New Firefox 4 Mobile Beta Available for Android and Maemo openSUSE 11.4 RC 2 is Out – Less than 2 weeks till Final Amazon Prime Video Streaming Works in Linux Fedora To Woo Designers With Booth at SXSW PC-BSD 8.2 Ships […]
Hi. I’ve got a very fresh experience, upgrading 8.1 to 8.2 for a friend today, x86-USB.
First, I booted into installer and chose Upgrade. After some initialisation it started uninstalling old packages and at linux-f10-ant (or something like that) the system froze. Very suspicious because it had never done so before. I retried, then tried acpi off and safe mode, unplugging peripherals, but it always ended up dead at the same step. Unfortunately, at that point the original system was already unbootable. So I booted into Live mode but when I started installation there it froze too. Then I used Live mode to get data to external disk via command line. Another complication was that in Live mode NTFS is not mounted via ntfs-3g, so not writable. Too tricky for normal users sort out.
After all data backed up I went for fresh install. That went well. One issue though was partitioning. I chose slice with old installation but wanted custom partitioning (one UFS+S and one SWAP). Selecting it did not show any partitions, so I clicked on Auto and it used the whole disk. Very bad surprise and one I nearly overlooked! What I had to do was going back, choosing Auto-partitioning and Next, then Back and changing to Custom partitioning and then I could modify default partitioning.
While I appreciate PC-BSD is getting better with each release, issues like described above are serious enough to burn common users and make them not consider PC-BSD anymore and spread bad feelings. Therefore making installation and upgrade real smooth and above all safe should be at the top of PC-BSD backlog.
Sorry to hear you are running into an upgrade problem. I’ve seen this from time-to-time, and it has something to do with a kernel panic from uninstalling various linux compat packages. Sometimes just re-running it will get it past the trouble spot. FWIW, this seems better in 9, so it may have been fixed there already.
Maybe. But launching installer from Live mode it froze immediately.
Anyway, perhaps you could improve on the rest I mentioned — using ntfs-3g in Live mode so it is actually useful for backups, providing Midnight Commander in Live mode / default install so users don’t have to get mad with command line, making sure partitioning is robust and its workflow clear and easy.
Besides, even though I selected my timezone, after installation I found it is UTC and cannot be changed from KDE control panel. This has been issue for long time and is one that users will notice immediately.
Such issues should really be of high priority because they drive potential users off before they can get hooked on other qualities of otherwise cool system.
Cheers.
[…] to be outdone, PC-BSD released their latest and greatest on February 24 too. PC-BSD is sometimes referred to as the Ubuntu of […]