Also keep in mind that if you have XP SP2 installed all of your ports are blocked (except Port 80 of course) You will need to reconfig the Firewall available in Control Panel specifically TCP 3306 4759 BTW: It would be helpful to place Port Assignment information in System Requirements I found it by digging thru reams of doc Martin- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Menke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Error message on windows xp install
> 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 > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
