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Starting MySQL on Windows 95 or Windows 98
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MySQL uses TCP/IP to connect a client to a server. (This will allow any
machine on your network to connect to your MySQL server.)  Because of
this, you must install TCP/IP on your machine before starting MySQL.
You can find TCP/IP on your Windows CD-ROM.

Note that if you are using an old Win95 release (for example OSR2), it's
likely that you have an old Winsock package!  MySQL requires Winsock 2!
You can get the newest Winsock from `http://www.microsoft.com/'.
Win98 has the new Winsock 2 library, so the above doesn't apply for
Win98.

To start the `mysqld' server, you should start an MS-DOS window and
type:

     C:\> C:\mysql\bin\mysqld

This will start `mysqld' in the background without a window.

You can kill the MySQL server by executing:

     C:\> C:\mysql\bin\mysqladmin -u root shutdown

Note that Win95 and Win98 don't support creation of named pipes.  On
Win95 and Win98, you can only use named pipes to connect to a remote
MySQL server running on a Windows NT server host.  (The MySQL server
must also support named pipes, of course. For example, using
`mysqld-opt' under NT will not allow named pipe connections.  You
should use either `mysqld-nt' or `mysqld-max-nt'.)

If `mysqld' doesn't start, please check the `\mysql\data\mysql.err'
file to see if the server wrote any message there to indicate the cause
of the problem.  You can also try to start the server with `mysqld
--standalone';  In this case, you may get some useful information on
the screen that may help solve the problem.

The last option is to start `mysqld' with `--standalone --debug'.  In
this case `mysqld' will write a log file `C:\mysqld.trace' that should
contain the reason why `mysqld' doesn't start. Note: Making trace
files.