(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 am
Post subject: quick question about windows vista partitioning Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>installation_setup (more info?)
Hi.
I am new here and hope I am posting in the right place.
I just have a very quick question about installing Windows Vista.
Would the following partition scheme work?
Partition 1: C: , mounted completely read-only to all limited-users
Partition 2: Mounted on C:\users (C:\Documents and Settings) in
read-write mode for all users
Would such a setup work with software such as Microsoft Office, etc?
And would this even be possible in Vista?
It's probably evident that I'm coming from Linux with this; trying to
implement a setup in Windows similar to the way that /home in Linux
usually resides on a separate partition.
(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 am
Post subject: Re: quick question about windows vista partitioning [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
With a read only Partition how would Vista update???
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> Hi.
>
> I am new here and hope I am posting in the right place.
>
> I just have a very quick question about installing Windows Vista.
>
> Would the following partition scheme work?
> Partition 1: C: , mounted completely read-only to all limited-users
> Partition 2: Mounted on C:\users (C:\Documents and Settings) in
> read-write mode for all users
>
> Would such a setup work with software such as Microsoft Office, etc?
> And would this even be possible in Vista?
>
> It's probably evident that I'm coming from Linux with this; trying to
> implement a setup in Windows similar to the way that /home in Linux
> usually resides on a separate partition.
>
> Thanks,
> Rus.
>
>
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 am
Post subject: Re: quick question about windows vista partitioning [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
The operating system can not be on a read only partition. There is no way
you could separate out all the processes and programs that normally write to
the drive and place them on another partition.
I can't even see why you would want to do this in Linux!
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"ruslan40" <ruslan40.3eo9zc.TakeThisOut@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi.
>
> I am new here and hope I am posting in the right place.
>
> I just have a very quick question about installing Windows Vista.
>
> Would the following partition scheme work?
> Partition 1: C: , mounted completely read-only to all limited-users
> Partition 2: Mounted on C:\users (C:\Documents and Settings) in
> read-write mode for all users
>
> Would such a setup work with software such as Microsoft Office, etc?
> And would this even be possible in Vista?
>
> It's probably evident that I'm coming from Linux with this; trying to
> implement a setup in Windows similar to the way that /home in Linux
> usually resides on a separate partition.
>
> Thanks,
> Rus.
>
>
> --
> ruslan40
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:08 am
Post subject: Re: quick question about windows vista partitioning [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
The partition would be accessible to administrator(s). It would only be
read-only to regular users.
Would this be possible in any way?
On Linux workstations, we always used to mount the main partition
read-only by default. If we needed to update, we would alter the boot
parameters. But I assume this isn't possible (or unnecessarily
complicated) in Vista.
(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:40 pm
Post subject: Re: quick question about windows vista partitioning [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Check c: context menu,properties, security tab to see what options you have
for each type of users; normal users (others than admin type) by default
have 'read and execute', 'list files' and 'read' privileges. Guess 'read and
execute' is necessary for some actual work on the machine... pending what
group of users you want to have. You can create groups with 'read' only
privilege but what's the point... looking at pictures and reading docs?
Michael
"ruslan40" <ruslan40.3eo9zc DeleteThis @DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi.
>
> I am new here and hope I am posting in the right place.
>
> I just have a very quick question about installing Windows Vista.
>
> Would the following partition scheme work?
> Partition 1: C: , mounted completely read-only to all limited-users
> Partition 2: Mounted on C:\users (C:\Documents and Settings) in
> read-write mode for all users
>
> Would such a setup work with software such as Microsoft Office, etc?
> And would this even be possible in Vista?
>
> It's probably evident that I'm coming from Linux with this; trying to
> implement a setup in Windows similar to the way that /home in Linux
> usually resides on a separate partition.
>
> Thanks,
> Rus.
>
>
> --
> ruslan40
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