Ben Klein 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 :) > >
This isn't strictly true with XP and earlier: if you had other drives (even sometimes card readers and USB sticks) available at install time, often Windows would install itself onto an E:\ drive. Some systems would run into trouble after adding a disk because Windows would reassign the new disk to C:\ and the old install would move off C:\, breaking some apps. On Vista, however, when you add that new disk Windows keeps its system drive as C:\, even if the new disk is earlier in priority. You can also have multiple installs of Windows on a system, and while the XP ones may be happy to boot from E:\, the Vista ones will also rename it to C:\ for you once inside. So, that said, I'm not sure it's possible to have a non C:\ drive as a system drive on Vista. If so, it certainly requires more configuring than XP does, where it would happen on accident. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
