dBASE V for WINDOWS / WIN 98 installation problem

[geosta]

I have the DBASE V for Windows. I tried to install it to my new PC WIN98 350MHz Intel PII 256 MB memory 30MB Hard disk FAT32.
Before this, DBASE V had been successfully installed with 10 MB disk FAT 16, WIN 95, P200 MMX, 32 MB memory. Because of a disk failure I decided to upgrade.
I get the message during installation "Unable to open OLE2.PAK for writing". But OLE2.PAK is there, in my original 6th diskette and installation stops. But I can make a minimum installation successfully, it doesn't use OLE2.pak file, but then there are many functions missing.
I suspect that two things may be responsible
WIN 98 or FAT32. Which one do you think is the cause of the installation failure? Or sth else?
Thank you very much.

 

[GEMS]

Dear Geosta,
Sorry you've had no replies and I felt I was the least likely person to help you have on this one - however here goes.
I strongly suspect that the error message you have means there's a corrupt section on the disc. Try installing dbase V using these discs on another machine. The same result and message means it is a faulty disc - success may only mean however that the different machine is able to read the faulty disc - some drives are less touchy than others. Using this second machine to make a disc copy might yield success on your own machine. It has worked for me in the past. Hope you are as lucky!
GEMS

 

[MiggyD]

GEMS' think is very good. There's not much more that I could add, myself. Only, thing I could think of (since Borland has cancelled ANY support for this tried and true product is that you check out the following web site:

http://dbase.com/

There'll be two boxes on screen...look at the second one, it's got a link to DBASE Knowledge Base it may help.

--MiggyD

PS--if you look at the first box, it indicates an UPGRADE to DB 5.7 . I'm not sure if it's a true free upgrade but you can ask around.

PPS--last time that site was modified was NOV 21, 2000. Hopefully, GEMS' advice is the easier of these two.