I,m cross posting here as this is an enterprise server setup.

I have a debian distro mediawiki v.1.15 site on one computer that I want to move to another directory with the newer version mediawiki v.1.17 installed and working from a tarball. Still on the same debian system. i created a new database for the new mediawiki...I want to import/restore the database from the old version to the new one.I exported the database from the old ver. using phpmyadmin, no issue there. When I tried to import it to the new ver. database it errored out saying the file was too big. Any ideas on how to do this? I also have Webmin installed with access to all these same databases, if that helps.
Thanks!
John