Re: System error 1067

[Bob Field]

What I showed you was a very bare bones my.ini with just the minimum necessary to run MySQL with. If you take a peek inside the sample configuration files you'll see notes on the sort of system it's recommended for. I'd take of those files, copy it to c:\windows, rename it to my.ini, and edit it to set the basedir and datadir paths to the correct values. Note that paths inside the my.ini are represented using forward slashes.

There really aren't too many steps to installing a binary MySQL package.

1) Unpack the MySQL files somewhere on your disk
2) Create or tailor a config file
3) Install MySQL as a service
4) Start the service.

The setup program can do any or all of these steps for you, in rather generic fashion. One size fits all, for the most part, at first, unless you have extraordinarily limited resources or plan to have immediate extreme performance requirements.