Comments on: Some more geek stuff

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:31:23 +0000

I had the same problem, simply because I had another drive installed at the same time as my ‘OS Drive’, and for some reason Windows decided to designate that drive as “J:/” instead of “C:/” (which it assigned to one of my DVD-ROM drives). I’ve only had a couple problems, mostly from 3rd party softwares packages that won’t allow you to select an installation drive (since they obviously can’t install to a DVD). But it’s probably better for you to start again with C:/ anyway.

So, are you sticking with Windows XP or making the leap into Vista (shudder).

By: Apertome

Apertome — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:55:06 +0000

Thanks everyone. An update: I decided to reinstall to make my system drive C:. I just didn’t want to take any chances I’d have future problems, and I hadn’t installed much software yet anyway so no real loss.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:35:32 +0000

You shouldn’t have issues with it being installed on a non c:. However some applications might attempt to default there during install…you can change the drive letters around but it takes some doing. I believe you can use TweakXP to do this.

I use Ubuntu as my primary OS at home…I rarely boot into windows and really windows is only there in case I decide I want to start gaming again. To remote into work I have to go through a CiscoVPN which was pretty easy to setup in Ubuntu…and rdesktop connects me to whatever machine I need to get to.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:00:25 +0000

I ran XP from the E: drive for several years without incident. Should be fine.

By: Noah

Noah — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:32:28 +0000

It should work, I used vpnc on OpenBSD to connect to our Cisco VPN when I worked for Kozoru. As long as there aren’t any funny rules that force the cisco client software to check certain parameters of your computer (like my new employer has), it will work fine. Configuration, as you can imagine, will likely be an exercise in patience.

By: Apertome

Apertome — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:24:51 +0000

Thanks Noah, I don’t know whether Cisco’s VPN is IPSec-compliant, but I’ll look into your suggestion. rdesktop sounds promising as well. I’ll try that first, and if it doesn’t work out I’ll go with some sort of VNC program.

By: Noah

Noah — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:20:59 +0000

I personally use “rdesktop”, an MSTSC-compatible client for windows terminal servers. When I worked for a company that wasn’t so strict about stuff, I had an SSH server that I tunnelled port 3389 over. If you have an IPSec-compliant VPN, the vpnc program for Linux should work nicely.

Sorry I can’t answer your Windows questions. I really haven’t got much experience there.