Using ver 8.18 dist 3.23.36 on win98se. It unzipped just fine, installed and starts
mysqld-opt in the background at startup. The nice GUI is a green traffic light in the
system tray, but it frequently disappears, and seems to hang if I attempt to restart
it. I don't know how to restart it, and I am reading through the manual, as well as
helpful links to tutorials, but it is going slow. When I run mysqladmin -help, my
DOS window is too small to display the information at the beginning, and there's no
option to display a page at a time (like /p).
I created a table using jdbc (driver from mark mathews), but can't do much else yet.
Help me know, please, how to get back the traffic light, why I crash it so often, and
where I can get more help for running on win98. I can run a web server (OrionServer)
just fine on my machine, but there's a line in the manual saying win98 doesn't support
running mysqld as a service.
- pablo alonso - ventura, california
