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@gmail.com> wrote:2009/3/8 Scott Ritchie <scott@open-vote.org>:
ALL versions of Windows *default* to C: being the first (primary)> David Gerard wrote:
>> 2009/3/8 King InuYasha <ngompa13@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.
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 :)