MySQL upgrade from 3.x to 4.x wit hYUM

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

lonnie at outstep.com wrote:
> Hello All,


Hi,


> I was wondering someone could please tell me if you had any problems
> with the upgrade as we already have databases on our MySQL 3.x and
> do not want to lose the data.

I did it from MySQL 3.23 to MySQL 4.0.20 just by droping the
/var/lib/mysql directory and then it works.

You can also use the dump method, but the "raw copy" worked for me.

It was a precious DB, but I tested the method thenI succeded, so that I
did not try another one anymore :-)

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