Creating DB at alternate location

Hello all,

Trying to create a DB at an alternate location fails. I am not succeding with relativ or absolute
path and even not with environment variables. Also changing from a normal user to root
dosn't change result. What do I wrong.
Can anybody give me a complete command-sequence.
System is Suse-Linux 8.0

                                                           Peter Schmid
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