Windows installs

[guddler]

Hopefully a quick question...

I've been upgrading and part of this has been to rebuild my old PC for my mate who is buying it off of me. He insists on having XP as well as Windows 7 so I've dual partitioned the hard drive 100GB for XP, 400GB for Win7 (give or take). I did XP as the first partition as I had in the back of my mind that it needed to be within the first X sectors of the drive?

So, after a lot of buggering about because he's not buying new SATA optical drives or anything like that, I finally got both OS's installed. But Windows 7 has called it's system drive 'Drive D'

Is this going to be ok? It's working fine at the moment but I don't want to end up with a crap load of issues further down the line. If not, apart from not having XP, how else can I do it?

 

[trm]

It'll be fine. Internally all references are to .DeviceX and drive letters are pretty much for the user now - in fact in W7 you can disable them.

No problem at all.

ETA: "drive" not "driver"

trmatthe2011-02-25 13:00:26

 

[guddler]

Thank F for that! I have to say, I'm sick and tired of installing computers now. I've been at it every night this week between my quad boot behemoth and 'his' machine

I've more important things to be getting on with like stuff I can't talk about

And I now need to write a custom mail relay as I've given up on getting postfix to do what I want!

 

[trm]

No luck with the generic module then? I didn't get any time to have a play yesterday so was going to try again at the w/e. It seems surprising that the whole generic module wasn't working with a really simple re-write rule so I'm sure I've made a basic error somewhere.

Did you manage to get any outbound rewrite working?

 

[guddler]

In a word, no to all of that! It just completely ignored everything I did. Hence after two days of banging my head against the proverbial brick wall it'll be easier to just write my own little mail proxy that re-writes the to and from to what I want as it does it.

 

[Alpha1]

In a word, no to all of that! It just completely ignored everything I did. Hence after two days of banging my head against the proverbial brick wall it'll be easier to just write my own little mail proxy that re-writes the to and from to what I want as it does it.

Can't exim/sendmail do that?

 

[trm]

In a word, no to all of that! It just completely ignored everything I did. Hence after two days of banging my head against the proverbial brick wall it'll be easier to just write my own little mail proxy that re-writes the to and from to what I want as it does it.

Can't exim/sendmail do that?

Postfix has separate modules for rewriting inbound and outbound mail but the outbound module "generic" wouldn't work for either Martin or myself on two separate builds - as in totally not even get involved, even though the logs and debug were showing it was part of the MTA flow.

I reckon coding up a filter app to do the re-write is a lot easier than converting the system to sendmail for sure

. God I hate that program.

 

[guddler]

Yeah, there's numerous things that can supposedly do it but they're all so complicated that this route is easier! Should have something running later...