lonnie@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 :-) -- Miroir de logiciels libres => http://www.etud-orleans.fr Un Nokia sous Linux, "programmable" en Open Source http://www.nokia.com/770 , http://www.maemo.org/ http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html