[Bug 58529] Smartsuite 9.8 installer fails unless z: is removed (with caveats)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58529

--- Comment #9 from Hans Leidekker  ---
(In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #8)
> (In reply to Hans Leidekker from comment #6)
> > Is there anything in Wine that requires this mapping? I thought files
> > outside of drive mappings could still be accessed through ??\unix paths. It
> > certainly is convenient to have that mapping because you don't need to use
> > 'wine start /unix ...' for example, but perhaps we could be smarter about
> > that?
>
> Another possibility is to mark z: as a network drive. Would that make
> installer avoid choosing it as the installation target?

Probably, since it checks the drive type, but I imagine this could trip other
applications.