On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, 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:?
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@umbc.edu