On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:09:18PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I have a windows based CD that I would like to install and use with
> Wine. The setup.exe prog crashes.
>
> What's the best way to proceed? is there anyway to extract and install
> without using the setup.exe program?
If you have a spare Microsoft box which is relatively clean you can
do the setup on that box, then move the files across yourself BUT
don't just go right ahead and do the setup... do it this way:
* Get a list of all the files on the Microsoft machine (before install)
DIR /S C:\ > files1.txt
* Dump out the entire registry as a text file (using regedit, before install)
* Do the install
* Get a new list of all the files
DIR /S C:\ > files2.txt
* Dump the entire registry as a different text file (again, using regedit)
Now you need to get those dump files onto a linux box and use diff:
$ diff files1.txt files2.txt | less
$ diff dump1.reg dump2.reg | less
Hopefully, that tells you what files you need, hopefully they aren't
scattered about the place too much. Note that some registry settings
may be keyed to a particular machine, some may be encrypted or encoded
in some hex encoding. This isn't a guaranteed method but it gives you
a fighting chance.
Also note that if you install the cygwin environment on the Microsoft
machine then you can use "find" to scan out the files which is better
than "DIR /S" also then you get "diff" and "less" without needing to
swap back and forth to Linux.
- Tel ( http://bespoke.homelinux.net/ )
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