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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:04 AM, King InuYasha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Ben Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shacklein@gmail.com" target="_blank">shacklein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2009/3/8 Scott Ritchie <<a href="mailto:scott@open-vote.org" target="_blank">scott@open-vote.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div>> David Gerard wrote:<br>
>> 2009/3/8 King InuYasha <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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>>> Drive C: is not necessarily the truly central drive. I have seen Windows<br>
>>> installs that installed on D: and have C: as a permanently mounted network<br>
>>> share. To assume that drive C: is always what it is... is blasphemy.<br>
>>> However, Wine does make this assumption, and probably the patch would be<br>
>>> appropriate. Just throwing that out there. However, I have also seen wine<br>
>>> installs onto a network where the WINEPREFIX is a network share so that<br>
>>> multiple people can use the same program.<br>
>><br>
>> This is true. I've seen a Windows box at work which has the system on<br>
>> the E: drive and no C: drive at all. WHAT.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, is there any program in the world that would balk at<br>
>> installing on C:<br>
><br>
> No, and Vista now defaults to always reassigning the system drive to C:\<br>
> �- it's not bad for us to copy that behavior.<br>
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</div></div>ALL versions of Windows *default* to C: being the first (primary)<br>
harddisk partition detected, and being the partition where the system<br>
gets installed. Configurations that don't have C: have been<br>
specifically configured as such, which is still possible with Wine.<br>
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What I'm unsure of, but suspect is so, is that it is impossible, on<br>
native Windows (XP, Vista, possibly server versions too?), for C: to<br>
be a network share. I'm sure it's true of Win9x :)<br>
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