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

[Steve Brown]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, 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:?

I know of several pieces of software I have to deal with that refuse to 
install in such a situation... I've gotten fairly adept at forcing XP to 
call the drive it installs on C: instead of whatever the installer really 
wants to call it -- sadly, that sometimes involves crashing the installer, 
"deleting" the offending partition (while carefully noting the cylinders 
it contains), then creating a partition for XP to install into that 
doesn't include those cylinders.  Bleah!

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu