Win2k Pro + MySQL?

Anon

I'm having severe problems getting MySQL running properly under Windows 2000 Professional.

I've tried both 3.22.34 (Shareware version) as well as a newer version, but the same thing happens with both versions: I start mysqld, and then nothing. Not even an error message.

Can anyone help me either getting MySQL working or recommending another SQL server for Win2k? Preferrably something small and free. 🙂

Anon

Iam currently running 3.23 on a W2K Pro. I also have 3.22 running on a W2K Advanced Server with no problems at all.

I start them as services, read the doc
file how you do that.

The exe file to use is \"mysqld-shareware.exe\" for 3.22 and \"mysqld-nt.exe\"
for 3.23.

// Rgds - Dan

Anon

If you can't run it as a service just type the following from the dos prompt....

cd mysql(or path to mysql)
cd bin
mysqld -n

this will get it running!

rgds,
scottd~

Anon

I had this same problem as well, but I installed MySQL using PHPTriad. I believe what I did to solve the problem was to create a c:\my.cnf file, which is the config file for MySQL (there is a sample in part of the mysql configuration).. I say I beleive because I did a few things, and the win2k machine has been causing me nothing but problems 🙂

That was on my win2k server. I have a win2k professional machine i use for development, and I used the standard MySQL distribution, and I had no problems at all getting MySQL to run, but I may have made a config file before i tried it (it was a while ago, I forget).

good luck.

Anon

Thanks for all the tips. It was a classical example of "DOH! Why didn't I think of that?"

I was expecting the installer to do everything for me, but it didn't. I forgot to do a "mysqld-nt --install" to install mysql as a service.