[PATCH] [RFC] Make drive C always a "Local disk"

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/8 Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org>:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> 2009/3/8 King InuYasha <ngompa13 at 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 :)