Hi,
make sure the existing directories has been removed fully, then continue
with
new installation, after installation is over, pl. restart the system, if
mysql daemon
has not started, pl. go to ..\mysql\bin\ directory & run winmysqladmin.exe.
mysql service will be strated to work..
-Aman.
Ch
Network Administrator
Coe-Truman Technologies, Inc.
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: New INstall of MySQL
OK
Comment out this line:
datadir = c:/SQLData
in the my.ini file in your windows (winnt) folder and remove the my.cnf from your c:\.
Start the server.
The default location of the data folder is c:/mysql/data. You told it to look in
c:/SQLData and it can't find it's security database. Also you s
OK!, first of all, do you have a complete-working directory of mysql in
whatever drive you installed mysql?, this is usually in c:\mysql. I
asked this because the installer doesn't seems to work. Also there is no
need for a my.cnf and a my.ini, you should only use one, one is enough,
i rather use m
