Hello Steven I have installed it as an service, I first stopped the service form the Service Control Manager and I went to the directory "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL > Server 5.0\bin" ran the command "mysqld" --console. and out put was
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>"mysqld" --console '"mysqld"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. The reference manual says that there are three server types, mysqld ,mysqld-nt, mysqld-debug.My problem is I am able to start mysqld server Varuna On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good Morning Steven > > Hello Varuna! > > > Well to start mysqld the reference > > manual instructs to give the command [C:\> "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL > > Server 5.0\bin\mysqld" --console] > > > > The out put is as below > > > > 'C:\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > > operable program or batch file.under the heading "Starting the server for > > the first time" > > It's not practical to install MySQL in the directory Program Files, > because the folder name for cmd is too long and it's a little bit > tricky. Better structure is the following: > > C:\MySQL\ > > So the service to start -> Command Prompt (cmd) > > > C: > > cd /MySQL/ > > mysqld-- console > > It is important to the folder where MySQL is. Otherwise it is not my > opinion. > > Greetings, > Steven >
