I'd love to here an answer to this one too. Exact same scenario.. exact same problem.
--- "Lucy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>Hi
>1. I'm working in Windows 2000, intending to run MySQL to localhost on same
>laptop.
>2. I've edited "my.cnf" to change to d: wherever it said c:, placed it 3
>places, c:\, d:\ and d:\mysql\data\ as per Manual's Option Files. As I
>unzipped binary directly to d:
>
>3. None of these have worked:
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --debug
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --standalone --debug
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --standalone
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --basedir d:\mysql
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --skip-grant-tables --debug
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld --skip-grant-tables
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --standalone --debug
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --standalone
>
>I was shutting down via Task Manager but have repeated by shutting down the
>laptop aswell.
>All cases, everything just hangs, nothing happens.
>
>4. As per Manual, this command:
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqld
>
>produced a mysql.err file which states "REady for connections"
>and it came back to the prompt d:>
>I thought this might have started the server up, so I then tried d:>mysql
>but it didn't recognise this.
>I tried
>d:\mysql\bin\mysqlshow
>but it came back with error message, "Can't connect to MySQL server on
>'localhost'. Check that it's running.
>
>5. I particularly didn't want to use the mysqld-nt install option because I
>don't want the bother of installing as a service with
>users/passwords, this is just development work, Windows defaults of being
>available for all users is fine.
> Also the Manual states the option file my.cnf is supported by program
>"mysqld", implicitly it therefore does not support programs "mysql-nt",
>"mysql-opt". As I've changed default location, I need the option file I
>believe.
>Anyone any ideas? Cheers, Lucy
>
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