Comments on Brian Silberbauer: Creating a MySQL Database on an External Drive - T...

I may be having the same issue as Jack: when I ent...

2012-02-16T16:55:03.193+02:00

I may be having the same issue as Jack: when I enter the mysql_install_db command, I get:

-bash: mysql_install_db: command not found

on osx.

I think I've installed mysql correctly (5.5.2). ie, I can get into the 'normal' mysql prompt.

Hi Jack, I ran it from the command line - http://d...

2012-02-03T08:51:43.815+02:00

Hi Jack, I ran it from the command line - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-install-db.html

can you explain about running "mysql_install...

2012-02-02T07:34:51.226+02:00

can you explain about running "mysql_install_db"
from where ? command prompt or with mysql command prompt

thanks

Thank you very much Brian ... I've been workin...

2011-11-23T07:02:09.039+02:00

Thank you very much Brian ... I've been working for days trying to figure out how to mount my external so MySQL would write to it .. this works!