I have installed a JavaTM runtime, how do I start the database server?
First you must create a new database. Go to the command prompt, change to the directory where you installed the distribution and type; java -jar mckoidb.jar -create [admin username] [admin password] This will create a new database with the configuration options found in the ‘db.conf’ file in the current directory. The [admin username] and [admin password] part should be substituted with a name and password that the database admin will use to access the database. The admin user is given complete control of the database. To start the server after the database has been created, type; java -jar mckoidb.jar Note that some JavaTM virtual machines only permit an application to allocate a maximum of 16 megabytes of memory by default. This may not be enough for a larger database. Refer to your JavaTM vendor documentation for details on how to increase this limit. To increase the memory available in the Sun JVM implementation, use the -Xmx switch. For example; java -Xmx64m -jar mckoidb.jar This
