Hi there, I'm trying to unpack the vbox 3.2.0 win32 installer to obtain its contents, on a Win2k VBox VM running inside Linux. The goal is to extract the vbox 3.2.0 contents to create a "portable" (actuallly, zipped version) that I could carry on a pen drive, and just unzip from the command line whenever I need it.
Now, I could just install on a XP system, zip the program dir, and be done (I can manually install the service and drivers after that), but my only XP system has MS Installer damaged, so .msi files refuse to run. And Vbox 3.2.x refuses to install on a win2k system. (I believe win2k host support was removed around v1.6) I've used Microsoft's Orca tool to remove the LaunchCondition tree so it'd run on Win2k (just to extract the contents and zip them up), yet even if I remember that property from the .msi file, it continues refusing to proceed. It seems to me that the installation .exe contains two files inside: 06/02/2010 12:56p 34,273,799 common.cab and 06/02/2010 01:17p 24,107,520 VirtualBox-3.2.0-r61806-MultiArch_amd64.msi. I used Cabextract for win32 (http://ho.io/cabextract-win32) to unpack the common.cab file and found it contains: 04/19/2010 02:49p 19,053 License_en_US.rtf 05/18/2010 08:28p 4,007,901 UserManual.pdf 05/18/2010 08:27p 2,211 vboxapisetup 05/18/2010 08:28p 2,031,616 vboxefifd32 05/18/2010 08:28p 2,031,616 vboxefifd64 05/18/2010 08:23p 31,916,032 VBoxGuestAdditions.iso So nothing of interest inside the cab. So the program should be in the .msi. The problem is that the .msi seems to contain just the 64-bit version? Am I missing something? Of course, I could save a lot of hassle if Sun/Oracle just provided a zipped file with the installed program folder contents, as many open source projects do (which offer an instaler and .zip version, to update a current installation), but Sun indicated some time ago that they didn't see a need to drop the lovely *cough* Microsoft Installer. So... could someone tell me how to extract just the win32 version of Vbox 3.2.x from the installation .exe ? Thanks, FC -- "Los grandes diarios del establishment traen sólo dos informaciones que son reales e indiscutibles: el día, y el precio". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
