J.O. Aho wrote:
> JackM wrote:
>
>> I have 3.23.xx currently installed. It was installed as a stand alone
>> application, not part of any wamp package. In reading the instructions
>> on the MySQL site, MySQL says I should upgrade from 3.xx to 4.xx
>> before upgrading to 5.xx. But they don't put any version of 4.xx on
>> their download site which makes it impossible for me to do it the way
>> they say.
>
> You could dump all the content of the database to a file, clean out the
> machine of MySQL and then install MySQL5 and import the dump, you will
> need to reindex things and functions/procedures.

Thanks. That's probably what I'll end up doing anyway.

> Maybe your web browser is so buggy it can't display HTML code?
> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html

You're right, I couldn't find that page before. My bad. I was looking
for 4.0. But this page tells me "Note: When upgrading from versions of
MySQL prior to 4.1.5, you must uninstall the existing version before
installing a new version."

So it looks to me that my initial thought which you snipped out of the
above quote is that I have to do a complete new install of 5.0.51 from
scratch was correct.

Thanks.