Andrew McLaren

> Since the new laptop with Vista does not have an A: drive, I had to copy
> all the install files to the laptop thru the LAN from my desktop. I copied
> them into C:\Planner Setup. I'm trying to install into C:\Planner. I'm
> installing as Admin and have tried in both '95 and'98 compatibility. In
> each case, during the install, I get the Install Message "Could not open
> the file named 'C:\Disk1\Planner.ex_'". Disk1??? Where the heck does that
> come from? There's no Disk1 in the path. All of the install files are in
> the C:\Planner Setup folder, and there are no sub-folders. I have also
> tried installing form the Public folder. This is very curious. Any more
> ideas? Thanks.

Hi Paul,

The 16-bit Setup.inf scripts often groups files accoridng to diskette, on
the assumption that software will always be installed from floppy (not a bad
assumption in 1994). The problem is probably not so much that you're
installing on Vista, as that you're installing on a machine which has no
floppy drive.

If you have the original Delrina Daily Planner floppies, create a directory
structure like this:

C:\
+----C:\DDPInst
+----Disk1
+----Disk2
+----Disk3
+--- etc

Copy the contents of floppy disk 1 into C:\DDPInst\Disk1, floppy disk 2 into
C:\DDPInst\Disk2, and so on.

If you don't have the floppy disks, just install the entire set of
installation files into each directory. Setup will just ignore the files it
doesn't want.

The run Setup from the C:\DDPInst\Disk1 subdirectory.

I'd recommend against using "C:\Planner Setup" as the name for the
installation directory - it's not causing the specific problem you're
seeing, but many older applications get easily confused by pathnames which
contain spaces. You might save yourself a further headache by starting with
the simplest, 8.3 naming conventions.

There will probably be a file with a name like setup.ini or setup.inf in the
installation files - this is the file which tells setup where to look for
each file it needs to install. It'll be a plain text file which you can open
in Notepad. I don't recommend you try to hack it at all; those early setup
files were very fragile constructions ... but reading it, may give you a
better understanding of how the Daily Planner setup is working.

I never used Delrina Daily Planner but I did install their WinFax Pro
product, back in the 1990s. I remember the company well.

Hope this helps, good luck with it!
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au