Also, Drive A: and B: can be used for network shares if you don't have a floppy drive, but this will break floppy drive support. In general, it isn't a good idea to allow Drive A: to be a network share, but since few modern machines have a 5 1/4" floppy drive anymore, Drive B: is up for grabs as a network device fairly safely.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:04 AM, King InuYasha <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :) >> >> >> >
