Remastered knoppix. But before did this, tested it on my usb flashdrive. All had to do was tell it in my.cnf
where the datadir was. Thought tested it before on the windows drive, but may not have.

1) With datadir /var/lib/msyql
If start up a unremastered Knoppix cd mysql will start fine. If put my remasted knoppix in it will start fine.

2) When put the datadir on the Windows drive (hda1). Mysql will not start, only thing edited was the --datadir.
The weird thing is that had this working several times when tried it at first, complained about something, but was
able to access the database and everything worked.
Code:
root@ttyp1[knoppix]# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...failed.
        Please take a look at the syslog.
Code:
root@ttyp1[knoppix]# mysqld
041229  0:10:31 Warning: Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /mnt/hda1/mysql/ is case insensitive
041229  0:10:31 bdb:  /mnt/hda1/mysql/log.0000000001: Permission denied
041229  0:10:31 bdb:  PANIC: Permission denied
041229  0:10:31 Can't init databases
041229  0:10:31 Aborting

041229  0:10:31 mysqld: Shutdown Complete
Tried it with 'mysqld --bdb-no-recover' also, but get same results. Also not sure why it is trying to right the bdb
log to the widows drive.

3) here is what have installed:
Code:
ii  mysql-client          4.0.22-2              mysql database client binaries
ii  mysql-common          4.0.22-2              mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
4) Got a little further. Was able to start it with datadir= /mnt/flash/mysql if changed the usb flashdrive (/mnt/flash) to 777 permissions.
But if change datadir= /mnt/hda1/msyql still won't start. Tried, but can't seem to get the permission to change on /mnt/hda1 to test it.
Well, went back to Gentoo and had trouble with it being on /dev/hda1 also for datadir. So, you can't put MySQL datadir on
a Windows98 system? Hope that isn't the case, cause it was the whole purpose of remastering Knoppix.