From: Christopher R. Jones
Date: April 4 1999 2:48pm
Subject: Re: Cannot start as NT Servive
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I am using 3.22.20 Win binary.

I finally got the service to start.  Here is the steps that worked:
1.  Remove using mysqld-nt --remove
2.  Uninstall software using Control Panel, Add Remove Software
3.  Edit registry to make sure all mysql keys removed.
4.  Re-install software.
5.  Copy my-example.cnf to C:\my.cnf
6.  Edit my.cnf to include:
	[mysqld]
	basedir = c:\mysql\
	datadir = c:\mysql\data\

7.  from C:\ execute c:\mysql\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --install
8.  Go to Control Panel Services and start Mysql.
9.  Test automatic start by rebooting, everything okay.

It seems the two critical steps were to make sure my.cnf was in the root
before executing mysqld-nt --install; and to make sure the basedir and
datadir were set in my.cnf.

A good lesson to include in the Readme file that is installed in mysql when
installing the Win version.

Thanks for everyone's help.



Christopher R. Jones, P.Eng.
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