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

[King InuYasha]

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 <ngompa13 at 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 <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>
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