I have had much better luck unzipping the Win32 binaries into their own folder and updating the my.ini file to match.
Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine "Brian Menke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/05/2004 11:32:49 AM: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running windows XP professional and just downloaded the latest binary > installer. I have used MySQL for a while (this is a new install), but for > some reason when I double click the setup.exe icon, I get the following > error message: "The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and > Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the > application". > > > > Any ideas? I was very careful to grab the windows version off a mirror site > (linked for mysql.com). > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Brian Menke >
