Hi David~
This looks to have worked... I had downloaded some other version of MySQL
that didn't have a setup.exe. Thank you for the good directions. Do
you/anyone know if I create a table on my local machine-- is there an easy
way to copy this table over to my remote Unix server?
Thanks,
-Ben
At 02:00 PM 7/22/2000 -0700, David LeBlanc wrote:
>Hi;
>
>Sorry to have been so brief before.
>
>I looked at my binary install, and can't find a file named
>mysq_installation.com, so I'm not sure what you're doing to get that file.
>
>Try this to see if it works for you:
>
>1. Download the msql-3.23.21-beta-win.zip file from msql.com to a temp
>directory.
>
>2. Unzip the file into (for example) c:\mysql\install or some other
>convenient temp directory, NOT the final directory or the directory where
>the zip file is. (You might want to save the zip file for other installs.)
>
>3. run 'setup.exe' which is in the dir from step 2.
>
>4. delete the dir from step 2. (If you unzipped into c:\mysql\install, then
>delete the install dir as it's not needed anymore.)
>
>5. Run winmysqladmin.exe from the mysql/bin directory. This program on my
>box has a strange tendancy to come up, show for a few seconds and then
>minimize itself to the task bar as a traffic light. It will also prompt you
>for a database username and password the first time it runs.
>
>6. On the 'my.ini setup' tab, go through and make sure all the paths agree
>with the directory where you actually installed mysql (if it's not the
>default c:\mysql). Don't uncomment or change any settings you don't
>_completely_ understand. Also select the version of mysql you want to run -
>I suggest standalone at first, not the service or pentium opt versions.
>
>7. On the upper right corner of the program window, there is a message that
>says something like "right click here for menu". Right click there and
>select "start server standalone" (this message may vary depending on what
>version you decided to have started in the my.ini setup tab.)
>
>8. If you picked standalone, you will see a console window pop-up at least
>momentarily and then disappear (does this here on NT). Then, after a few
>moments, you should see some server connect info on the 'environment' tab of
>the winmysqladmin program.
>
>At this point you can hide the winmysqladmin program (using the menu as in
>step 8) and you have a running server. Now you can run mysql.exe or
>Mysqlmanager.exe to do stuff with the database.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Dave LeBlanc
>
>
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