On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ?
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