Peter Brawley wrote:
> Amer
>
> >I'm having no luck getting MySQL 5 installed under Windows 2000
> Professional.
> >The service does not start, either automatically on bootup, or
> manually. Reading
> >through the manual does not address the issue, at least that I could
> find.
>
> From %mysql_home%\bin try running it first in a cmd window ...
>
> mysqld-nt --console --log_warnings
>
> or
>
> mysqld-nt --standalone --log_warnings
>
> Once it runs without errors, shut mysqld-nt down, eg by running
>
> mysaladmin -uroot shutdown
>
> from another cmd window, then install the service with ...
>
> mysqld-nt -- install
>
> after which it should auto-start at bootup.
>
> PB
I finally got MySQL server running but I'm afraid I did a
trouble-shooting no-no: I changed 2 things at once.
First, I went back to 5.0.21 instead of 5.0.41.
And when I changed my.ini to point to a different data dir, instead of
'restarting' the service from control panel, I stopped, then started it.
Voila!
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Amer Neely
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