From: Michael Widenius Date: October 7 1999 12:25pm Subject: Re: Win32 installation on another source drive List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/win32/657 Message-Id: <14332.37148.497988.767405@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Joost-Jan" == Joost-Jan Hendriksen writes: Joost-Jan> Hello, Joost-Jan> First of all, thank you for your reply! Joost-Jan> Michael Widenius wrote: >> >> > You can install the shareware version anywhere, but if you don't store >> it in C: then you have startup arguments to where you have installed >> it! For example: mysqld --basedir=d:/mysql >> The above is explained in the MySQL README file you got with the >> shareware version. Joost-Jan> I tried to, but mysql crashes when I try to start it this way ... :( If you can describe exactly what happens, we may be able to help you! >> The registered version can more easily be installed anywhere with the >> help of a my.cnf file! Joost-Jan> I tried to use a .cnf file with our shareware version, but I have got Joost-Jan> the idea that the shareware version does not read this file. Am I Joost-Jan> correct when I think this? Yes. The current shareware version doesn't support my.cnf files. Regards, Monty