RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
You should be able to unzip it with unzip or p7zip if it is a regular zip file. If it is a cabinet file then you need cabextract. Dave On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Did you try running the .exe with wine?
RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
Did you try running the .exe with wine?
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
2009/9/10 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au: Did you try running the .exe with wine? Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for it. Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their names are). Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au: Did you try running the .exe with wine? Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for it. Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their names are). Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified? Well, the installer itself needs to be decompressed to run. Most windows installers install the intermediate files in c:\windows\temp (which usually would be ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp. Some others create a temporal dir under c:\ (~/.wine/drive_c). It's a matter of firing up the installer and go looking around there with each step until you can find them. By the way, I've tried decompressing the file with 7z and it indeed extracts 6 files, however I have no idea what they contain. It must be the pieces that installshield chain together. I have no idea if it's possible to extract something from there or not. There's a big file called textually '[DATA]', which is the biggest one, so the stuff must be there. I guess that's the one containing the compressed files, the rest of the files must be the exe header and the install shield control into. However I haven't manager to decompress that '[DATA]' file using anything. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au: Did you try running the .exe with wine? Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for it. Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their names are). Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified? Well, the installer itself needs to be decompressed to run. Most windows installers install the intermediate files in c:\windows\temp (which usually would be ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp. Some others create a temporal dir under c:\ (~/.wine/drive_c). It's a matter of firing up the installer and go looking around there with each step until you can find them. By the way, I've tried decompressing the file with 7z and it indeed extracts 6 files, however I have no idea what they contain. Hmm ... p7zip does not seem to like it over here - is it different to 7z? $ p7zip -d wg511v2_3_2.exe /usr/bin/p7zip: wg511v2_3_2.exe: unknown suffix -- ignored It must be the pieces that installshield chain together. I have no idea if it's possible to extract something from there or not. There's a big file called textually '[DATA]', which is the biggest one, so the stuff must be there. I guess that's the one containing the compressed files, the rest of the files must be the exe header and the install shield control into. However I haven't manager to decompress that '[DATA]' file using anything. -- Jesús Guerrero -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:39:11 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au: Did you try running the .exe with wine? Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for it. Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their names are). Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified? Well, the installer itself needs to be decompressed to run. Most windows installers install the intermediate files in c:\windows\temp (which usually would be ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp. Some others create a temporal dir under c:\ (~/.wine/drive_c). It's a matter of firing up the installer and go looking around there with each step until you can find them. By the way, I've tried decompressing the file with 7z and it indeed extracts 6 files, however I have no idea what they contain. Hmm ... p7zip does not seem to like it over here - is it different to 7z? $ p7zip -d wg511v2_3_2.exe /usr/bin/p7zip: wg511v2_3_2.exe: unknown suffix -- ignored I've used the 7z binary that comes shipped with p7zip-4.65 in Gentoo. The command I used was $ 7z x wg511v2_3_2.exe 7-Zip 4.65 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-02-03 p7zip Version 4.65 (locale=es_ES.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU) Processing archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe Extracting .text Extracting .rdata Extracting .data Extracting .rsrc Extracting CERTIFICATE Extracting [data-1] Everything is Ok Files: 6 Size: 18794632 Compressed: 18798728 I reviewed the ebuild, just in case, and it doesn't apply any strange patch so it must be a standard feature. I haven't much experience with p7zip itself, but it doesn't seem to be quite the same than 7z. 7z serves as a frontend for many compression algorithms. It can surely open most compressed formats around. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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. :)
[gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
Hi All, I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: === $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) === Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:23:43 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: === $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) === Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? The files can be compressed with whatever algorithm. So you can still try unrar and many others. Failing that, you can still try to extract it using wine. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: === $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) === Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending?
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: === $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) === Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending? Self-extracting ZIP (and other archive format) files from DOS, Windows, OS/2, etc are usually an executable program with ZIP file appended. The stub program knows to seek to the end of its executable data to look for the archive it is to extract and unzip (etc) are able to detect this stub and bypass it. I googled the file wg511v2_3_2.exe and downloaded it. It is a InstallShield program, containing an MSI containing a CAB. AFAIK there are no Linux programs that are able to unpack -current- versions of InstallShield. 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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote: Hi All, I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: === $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) === Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can I extract the .sys files from in there? what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending? $ file -z wg511v2_3_2.exe wg511v2_3_2.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit I tried replacing the .exe with .zip but had the same results. Self-extracting ZIP (and other archive format) files from DOS, Windows, OS/2, etc are usually an executable program with ZIP file appended. The stub program knows to seek to the end of its executable data to look for the archive it is to extract and unzip (etc) are able to detect this stub and bypass it. I googled the file wg511v2_3_2.exe and downloaded it. It is a InstallShield program, containing an MSI containing a CAB. AFAIK there are no Linux programs that are able to unpack -current- versions of InstallShield. 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? I would be grateful for .sys and .inf files please. Either email them off list or upload them somewhere and let me have a URL to download them. This is where the original .exe came from: ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg511v2_3_2.exe -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
