Hey, sorry everyone - I figured it out.
I had to add the following to my.cnf
read-only
skip-innodb
I guess I shoulda kept googling before asking... mybad.
/JP
On 9/21/05, Jake Peavy <djstunks@stripped> wrote:
>
> Hey yall,
> I'm trying to use a DVD (containing a number of packed MyISAM tables in a
> directory) as the datadir in my my.cnf but I can't start the server:
> mysqld is trying to write to the datadir - error log, etc - and when it
> can't the server craters.
> Is there anyway of using a readonly directory as the datadir? Are there
> other options I can specify in my.cnf where I can tell mysqld to write the
> error files/etc?
> TIA,
> Jake
>
