Home or Pro? I have no experience with WinXP Home, but with WinXP Pro you need to installed MySQL as a service, then start the service. After that, the console will start with c:\mysql\bin\mysql
Instructions for installing as a service are in the MySQL Manual. -----Original Message----- From: Shion D. Deysarkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:32 AM To: Gerald R. Jensen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dos trouble Win XP On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Gerald R. Jensen wrote: > What O/S are you using ... Win2k, WinXP, etc.? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shion D. Deysarkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:15 PM > Subject: dos trouble > > > I'm trying to start up mysql through dos prompt. When I enter a command > like c:\mysql\bin\mysqld or anything similar (any command in the bin > directory), it just waits there. I can't Ctrl-C out of it. I can end the > process to get out. What's happening? > > > > -- > Shion Deysarkar > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sdd > > "Be water, my friend." > -- Bruce Lee > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html"; before > posting. To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the > List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. > > > > > > -- Shion Deysarkar http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sdd "Ah! That is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them." -- Gwendolen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
