Wonderful answer ..my problem solved
Thanks
chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Zawodny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "christopher sagayam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: moving entire databases
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:41:15PM +0100, christopher sagayam wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > While moving computers I tried to copy my entire database by just
> > copying the c:\mysql\data directory and after I have installed a new
> > mysql database on the new computer I just relpaced the data
> > directory with my own archived one .
> >
> > Now when I try to start the server it gives an error host.ism file not
found
> >
> > In my OLD mysql server there was NO file called host.ism at all
> >
> >
> > So how do I use all the old data which has just the .frm , .myd and
> > .myi files but the new server requires .ism files also
> >
> > Please help
> >
> > The mysql version on my new computer is 3.21.29a-gamma-debug-log
>
> Woah! Download a newer version of MySQL. That one is very, very, very
> old. MySQL 3.23.xx would be a much better choice. And it won't look
> for a host.ism file. :-)
>
> Jeremy
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