From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mlku9-0000in-LA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:45:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A48B1E079A; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88103E079A for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so252818ywh.30 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:45:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=zEJ+2si1yXJ0XQUQUouFQ2EdY0Pm4SSRBeA/mYvNUwI=; b=VFfnaF3oMcM67LAnqe5TG6hH2t2/smJ5Bssj7jz0Lc1YStlRn2hw3d4cro59jT4oBZ dBoA+ey4Pta0I5RLU064VXu0iNswuCA9Sv8zyNoCVPidCwR+ocN0um6PWQGgNS4hWKud vV62NyQlt6ilJOhsOVVukyMnhXrIXdYeBflXo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=JMlBd5Pl84l7mqXuhRoA6lEEgazv+ORFMS+aoXY5Ma/rY4YBSjZfjH487naqs3CtP2 nQ+Huuep8LJh8PrrHijMXRAKFSVnre5GhHE+8k4h/GpwOAKLhdx2rmtoC/DQSJjhJadW tUWIxkDyAQvqmWRtNSOPzk29Ov6BIqaYob2lc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.104.13 with SMTP id b13mr2914176ybc.17.1252593943676; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:45:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200909100614.40867.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200909092223.55916.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200909092329.36030.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <58965d8a0909091533i17ffe781kd2ba90cd45d3b775@mail.gmail.com> <200909100614.40867.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:43 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e1d7705211640844 Message-ID: <58965d8a0909100745l6ae3b85s1ee142fa55345f42@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 47dfee14-9bee-41c8-9766-11c20c5ef590 X-Archives-Hash: 01b4ce31803bf6a3ffd01e36e825aabf On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I am on Windows XP right now (at work), I have unpacked the contents >> and can email them to the OP or upload somewhere if you'd like. Let me >> know. > > Thanks Paul! How do you unpack the contents in WinXP? If you run the .exe it > just installs it/them all over the fs, right? Well, the "easy" way is to run the installer, then while it is open (waiting for you to click "Next" like all windows installers do) browse to "c:\Windows\Downloaded Installations\". The folder names will just be GUIDs so I will sort by date and fine the most recent one. Alternatively you can get InstallShield developer tools which can often unpack the files. Check out http://www.lifeasbob.com/2009/07/21/OpenAnInstallshieldCabFile.aspx for an example (no idea if it works in WINE though). In the case of your file, that folder contained 3 extracted files, the most interesting of which was this 10 meg file: "NETGEAR WG511v2 wireless PC card.msi" which is a Windows Installer file. >From there I was able to open the MSI file with 7-Zip, and saw that the MSI contained a 4-megabyte CAB file. Again used 7-zip to extract and then open the CAB file and re-zip its contents to a standard ZIP file for you. So, in summary, the 4 megabytes of actual files were wrapped in a Windows Installer wrapped in an InstallShield which inflated the size from 4mb to 18mb. That's windows drivers for you. :)