Gentlemen be aware that I shall be very grateful for your help and my problems are as follows


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-Finding root level directory
-Can't get winadmin(to set user name & password
-Can't debug and here are the details.
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First and foremost, I am on a windows 2000 machine and I get the dos window by going to the start icon,then to accessories and finally to the dos window with a black background and can quit by typing exit and enter on my keyboard.




1.After installing mysql.   From the open dos window when I  do c:/windows>D:/> on the command line I get this reply-message:

-not ready, due to abandon, restart or failure.

When I put int he command line:

D:/Program Files/MySQL/bin and then press enter or
D:/>cd "Program Files MySQL/bin"

I get the same reply of abandon, restart or failure


2. On typing

mysqld in the command line plus pressing enter on the keyboard.


I get command and file incorrect.


Again, when I add simply my.ini

like this

C:/windows>my.ini


I still get:

C:/windows>


Even typing the commands below to have an idea of the problem:
mysqld.trace
mysqld  - -standalone
mysqld.err
mysqld.trace  

For each command I get command and name of files incorrect.



Finally, when I use the search fontion to locate the files and folders on my machine I get this:

name                                        folder
mysql                                        C:/

That mysql is in the c:/mysql folder but can't install or configure.

Therefore, I shall be grateful for your help and any attention that you care to give to my installation and configuration problems.

Where did you install the MySQL?   It asks you to select a location as I recall, doesn't it?   The "Abandon, restart or failure" messages indicate to me that you've got a far more fundamental problem with the D drive; I wonder if you're trying to run MySQL and have its temporary files written on a read only device?

I would suggest you install on the C drive, in the directory that's suggested during the install procedure.   You shouldn't then need to have anything to do with D:



Very many thanks for your attention.

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Where did you install the MySQL?   It asks you to select a location as I recall, doesn't it?  
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I intend to restart the entire process again and be careful of where I am going to install mysql. Actually, I was following the instruction in a book and using the examples and from the cdrom attached to that book. I am thinking of going to the site of mysql and download it there to avoid all these problems.  

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The "Abandon, restart or failure" messages indicate to me that you've got a far more fundamental problem with the D drive;
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I grasped your message

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I wonder if you're trying to run MySQL and have its temporary files written on a read only device?
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I am starting all over again and will like to do away with the release attached to a book. In short, I was following the instructions of the author in a sort of step by step.


Thx


A follow-up, as I've spent the week since your original posts on this subject on a cruise listening to lectures by the founders and authors of MySQL, and visiting places such as Olympia, Izmir and Istanbul.

It stuck me very much how *important* easy installation is to them - I listened to them talking about the problems of trying to install (a) only to find that it requires (b) and (c) ... and so on ... with so many of the earlier open source projects.

MySQL has a 15 minute install target - you should be able to install it and try it our in quarter of an hour. And they have a team of people checking out all of their releases on all platforms. At the same time, nothings perfect especially if it's being installed onto a machine that you've been running for a while, strange disc partitioning perhaps with some full, older operating systems and brand new version of MySQL.

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