Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

[Mick]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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