Hey, sorry everyone - I figured it out. I had to add the following to my.cnf read-only skip-innodb I guess I shoulda kept googling before asking... mybad.
/JP On 9/21/05, Jake Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey yall, > I'm trying to use a DVD (containing a number of packed MyISAM tables in a > directory) as the datadir in my my.cnf but I can't start the server: > mysqld is trying to write to the datadir - error log, etc - and when it > can't the server craters. > Is there anyway of using a readonly directory as the datadir? Are there > other options I can specify in my.cnf where I can tell mysqld to write the > error files/etc? > TIA, > Jake >
