1. Which directory to install software WAS: Euphoria Windows Installer
>===== Original Message From Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> =====
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>I put all non-MS software on D: or E:, things like Textpad, Eu, mirc, Lua,
etc
>on D:, extended things like dictionaries and Arachnophilia on E:. This way,
if
>windoze trashes C:, as long as the partition info is good, i don't lose the
>other applications. Of course, now i have D: and E: as a separate hds, so
it's
>even more reliable. Some software i have refused to install because it
>insisted on C:. With the newer MS OSs, this is even more important, if i
>*must* run win2000 and *must* be online to MS, to register or get bug
>patches, i will yank the other drives first.
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I take a hybrid approach. Anything from MS gets installed in the default
suggested directory under "C:\Program Files". Things like Internet Explorer,
DirectX, Word, Excel, Powerpoint. For anything else I create the following
directory:
C:\OPT
and install those applications into subdirectories under C:\OPT - for example:
C:\OPT\Eudora My email client
C:\OPT\WinAmp MP3 player
C:\OPT\SimpTerm Telnet client
C:\OPT\EditPlus 2 My preferred text editor
If my system has a large drive (I class "large" as greater than 4 gig - YMMV)
then I'll created a C: partition and a D: partition on it. The D: partition
will be for large data files. For me this includes MP3 files, JPEG's from the
digitial camera and cloned hard drive images from my small P75 "crash and
burn" system which has a "baby" 640 MB IDE drive.
The exception to these rules is Euphoria - that stays in C:\EUPHORIA. While I
like to keep the root directory on C: as clean as possible I sometimes think
it isn't worth the bother to buck the trend for some things. I'm sure I could
install Euphoria into C:\OPT\EUPHORIA but the RDS installer only gives you the
option specify the drive letter. If I'm wrong here please let me know
otherwise. I'm sure I could install to C:\EUPHORIA and then manually move to
C:\OPT\EUPHORIA. I'd need to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT accordingly afterwards of
course. Just never got round to it.
Just my $0.02 worth.
BTW Kat, re: your hard drive cloning query - I have a Euphoria program which
will clone a primary IDE drive to a network share and back again should you
need to restore. It's not ready for "public consumption" but if your
interested in a "pre-alpha" look at the code then let me know.
Regards,
FP.
