Hello!

In my notebook there are Ubuntu, Mac OS X (x86), Xp Home and a share
partition (Fat32).

I have configured mysql for XP, but I have a problem with Ubuntu and Mac.

I have thinked to use "ln -s" for linking to share directory, but there
is an error and mysql service don't start.

Can I make? thanks.

(Sorry for my English!)

Alessandro Marini wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In my notebook there are Ubuntu, Mac OS X (x86), Xp Home and a share
> partition (Fat32).
>
> I have configured mysql for XP, but I have a problem with Ubuntu and Mac.
>
> I have thinked to use "ln -s" for linking to share directory, but there
> is an error and mysql service don't start.

For the binaries, you should use the packages that are meant for the operating
system (and distribution in the Linux case). Keep in mind that both Linux and
OSX don't think a fat-slice i s a good place to run applications on.

You could try to symlink the database files from the fat-slice to the location
where the database files are supposed to be stored at on OSX and Linux,
remember that they are case sensitive and it may not work well at all. Better
option my be to dump your databases when you shutdown to sql files, which you
then import when you run the mysql in another OS.


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//Aho