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Oct
2007
- Download the zip file from here.
- 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)
- 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
- Run your command prompt as administrator. And enter folder d:\mysql5045\bin
- Type mysqld-nt.exe –install mysql5045 –defaults-file=d:\mysql5045\my.ini
- 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.
- 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.
Tags: MySQL
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Works for me. Thanks
Hi Nelson:
I folloewd all step from your tutorial, but unfortenlly i got the next message “System error 1067 has occurred” when i was testing the service (net start mysql5045)… if hope you could help me…regarts.
Sorry for the late reply.
Did you get it work? I’d suggest you try to start mysql in console to view errors
hm. really like it..
Hi theres a small problem with step the ‘-defaults-file….’ should have 2 ‘-’ in front. e.g. ‘–defaults-file….’