It is definitely possible for Drive C: to be a network share on all versions of Windows starting from Windows 95. This does not exempt Windows XP/Vista/2k3/2k8. In fact, a public library in Indiana that I used to go to before I moved has all their machines set up this way. It takes a LOT of tweaking to make it work properly, because some applications expect Windows on Drive C:, but it is possible to do it.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/8 Scott Ritchie <sc...@open-vote.org>: > > David Gerard wrote: > >> 2009/3/8 King InuYasha <ngomp...@gmail.com>: > >> > >>> Drive C: is not necessarily the truly central drive. I have seen > Windows > >>> installs that installed on D: and have C: as a permanently mounted > network > >>> share. To assume that drive C: is always what it is... is blasphemy. > >>> However, Wine does make this assumption, and probably the patch would > be > >>> appropriate. Just throwing that out there. However, I have also seen > wine > >>> installs onto a network where the WINEPREFIX is a network share so that > >>> multiple people can use the same program. > >> > >> This is true. I've seen a Windows box at work which has the system on > >> the E: drive and no C: drive at all. WHAT. > >> > >> That said, is there any program in the world that would balk at > >> installing on C: > > > > No, and Vista now defaults to always reassigning the system drive to C:\ > > - it's not bad for us to copy that behavior. > > ALL versions of Windows *default* to C: being the first (primary) > harddisk partition detected, and being the partition where the system > gets installed. Configurations that don't have C: have been > specifically configured as such, which is still possible with Wine. > > What I'm unsure of, but suspect is so, is that it is impossible, on > native Windows (XP, Vista, possibly server versions too?), for C: to > be a network share. I'm sure it's true of Win9x :) > > >
