SAP Mini Basis 4.6D installation

Question

I hope I am on the correct forum! Please excuse this newby if not.
I have two cds with Mini SAP Basis 4.6D that I would like to install. I have experienced some problems that I have been able to overcome, but now, at 88% completion I get the following errors in the log file:
<i><b>INFO 2006-08-14 10:40:15 DBR3LICENSECREATE InternalInstallationDo:0
    Create SAP license table.
ERROR 2006-08-14 10:40:15 DBR3LICENSECREATE InternalInstallationDo:0
    See logfile dev_slic for further information.
INFO 2006-08-14 10:40:15 DBR3LICENSECREATE InternalInstallationDo:0
    See logfile dev_slic for further information.
ERROR 2006-08-14 10:40:15 DBR3LICENSECREATE InstallationDo:0
    Phase failed.
ERROR 2006-08-14 10:40:15 InstController Action:0
    Step DBR3LICENSECREATE could not be performed.
ERROR 2006-08-14 10:40:15 Main
    Installation failed.
ERROR 2006-08-14 10:40:15 Main
    Installation aborted.</b></i>
In the dev_slic log :
<i><b>----
trc file: "dev_slic", trc level: 2, release: "46D"
Mon Aug 14 10:40:15 2006
SlicSapInstall: sysname: >MBS< connect: >1< rollback: >1<
Extended Fetch will be used
HandleOledbError [ExecuteAndFlush,line 29750]: Error/Message: (911), Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'MBS'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
OpenOledbConnection : Failed to switch to specified database MBS
HandleOledbError [ExecuteAndFlush,line 29750]: Error/Message: (911), Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'MBS'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
OpenOledbConnection : Failed to switch to specified database MBS
HandleOledbError [ExecuteAndFlush,line 29750]: Error/Message: (911), Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'MBS'. No entry found with that name. Make sure that the name is entered correctly.
OpenOledbConnection : Failed to switch to specified database MBS
failed to establish conn. 0
ERROR       Connect to database failed
TIME        Mon Aug 14 10:40:15 2006
RELEASE     46D
COMPONENT   SLIC
VERSION     221
RC          18
MODULE      slicdb.c
LINE        126
DETAIL      DbSlConnect failed with return code 18
COUNTER     1
*****************************************************************************</b></i>
My apologies for the long post. Hope someone is able to help me the above greek messages

Answer 1

I found this at SAPTechnology:
Cause and preconditions
In R/3 as of Release 4.5, the database library is no longer linked
statically for the executables but is loaded dynamically at runtime. If
this shared library cannot be loaded, the connect to the database fails
with the above message.
Solution
Set the environment variable "dbms_type" to the type of the database
(for example ora, inf, ada, and so on) and the environment variable
"DIR_LIBRARY" to the path under which the shared library can be found
(in general, the exe directory, thus /usr/sap//SYS/exe/run in UNIX
systems).
*original location for the info is at: http://www.saptechnology.com/QA/Index.asp?BBS=QA&CurrentPage=330&searchId=&searchText=&Mode=VIEW&Idx=177&Tp=175