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Windows: Extract image from wim

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the install.wim file from newer Windows 10 Consumer DVDs is greater than 4GB and exceeds the maximum filesize of a fat32 formated USB Stick. Therefore the simplest way to created a bootable USB device is no longer possible.
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Linux: Extract an rpm file

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extracting an rpm file are two steps

  • Convert it to an cpio archive
  • And extract this

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Windows: Extract files from a Windows MSU Update File

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Windows builtin utility for extracting cab or msu files is expand
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Windows: Shrink a wim file

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the install.wim of Windows 10 iso Images which contains multiple OS Versions is usually greater then magic 4GB broder.

Therefore it is not possible to copy this file to an FAT32 formated USB Stick because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB.
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Windows: Extract all files from a msi file

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first post in 2015 🙂

msiexec offers the ability to extract all files included in an msi file to a specified folder by alter the TARGETDIR proberty of the msi package.

Syntax is
msiexec /a msifile.msi /qb TARGETDIR=D:\target
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