Changeset 68416 in vbox

Timestamp:

Aug 15, 2017 8:59:17 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

doc/manual: improve description of the MSI extraction from the Windows installer, because previously it looked like it can be extracted from an already installed VirtualBox.exe which is of course unintended

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Installation.xml (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/user_Installation.xml

@@ -34 +34 @@
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>or by entering <screen>VirtualBox.exe -extract</screen></para>
+            <para>or by entering <screen>VirtualBox-&lt;version&gt;-&lt;revision&gt;-Win.exe -extract</screen></para>
 
             <para>on the command line. This will extract both installers into
             a temporary directory in which you'll then find the usual .MSI
-            files. Then you can do a <screen>msiexec /i VirtualBox-&lt;version&gt;-MultiArch_&lt;x86|amd64&gt;.msi</screen>
+            files. Then you can do a <screen>msiexec /i VirtualBox-&lt;version&gt;-&lt;revision&gt;-MultiArch_&lt;x86|amd64&gt;.msi</screen>
             to perform the installation.</para>
           </listitem>