Install MySQL Community Server 5.0.45 Without Installer on Windows Vista

October 11, 2007 at 4:00 pm · Filed under Windows

  1. Download the zip file from here.
  2. Unzip it to your d: drive. Here’s what you should get after unzipping: d:\mysql-noinstall-5.0.45-win32. Rename this folder to mysql5045. (d:\mysql5045)
  3. Open folder d:\mysql5045. Copy my-small.ini and rename the copied file to my.ini. Open my.ini using notepad. Under line “[mysqld]“, enter the following lines:basedir=D:/mysql5045
    datadir=D:/mysql5045/data
  4. Run your command prompt as administrator. And enter folder d:\mysql5045\bin
  5. Type mysqld-nt.exe –install mysql5045 –defaults-file=d:\mysql5045\my.ini
  6. Type net start mysql5045 in command line. If you see the following, mysql 5045 is installed and running!The mysql5045 service is starting.
    The mysql5045 service was started successfully.
  7. IMPORTANT! type mysqladmin -u root password “your-new-password”, to set a password for your root account. The default install will leave no password required for your root account.

2 Comments »

  1. Div said,

    October 11, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Works for me. Thanks

  2. lejeLtyoptoloK said,

    February 24, 2008 at 6:21 am

    He wouldn’t want to have all the pupils stumbling around owning like that, but for one, it was encounter of cool.

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