Expected behavior Installer should let you choose installation drive. Best practice is to default to C: drive but have option to install to another drive. Actual behavior Installer installs to C: drive with no options to change this Tested on Windows 10 It would also be nice to be able to configu…

Absolutely, changing where the app is installed to as well as the location of images. I run a m2 ssd for main and raid-0 ssd’s for my vms. (I’m sure we aren’t the only devs with setups like this).

Ditto. I’ve tried installing the MSI and explicitly specifying the target directory (msiexec /i InstallDocker.msi TARGETDIR="D:\Docker" /qb)… I just end up with an empty D:\Docker, and the rest of the files still end up on C:\. I have Hyper-V configured to put its VM hard drives on a different dri…

I agree, Having an option to choose an installation location is critical. Please add this! :slight_smile:

Found a work around of sorts. start an Admin command prompt (cmd.exe) and change directory to wherever you’ve saved the installer. change the following environment variables to start with the drive letter you want ( e.g: set=ProgramFile=F:\Program Files ) [image] Execute the installer by running…

Thanks giroux7103. One extra step for me was to change the PATH environment variables to ensure that docker binaries were pointing to new drive (D:\ in my case) [image]

Any one want to explain for the layman?

Docker windows installer doesn't let you choose drive

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berndgoetz (Bernd) December 12, 2018, 11:38am 5

Same here. Will I be able to choose the installation directory somewhen soon? Thanks.

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