On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Kelly Zhu wrote:
> Try installing mySQL. Please help me out with these questions:
>
> 1) I am running RedHat 6.0 on a x86 machine. The file I downloaded was
> 'Linux (Intel libc6 systems) [pc-linux-gnu-i686]'. Is it the right one?
Yes Youare right. beware of 386, 586, or 686
>
> 2) 'Linux (Intel libc6 systems) [pc-linux-gnu-i686]' seems to be the binary
> distribution because I don't see any make files after untar it. Is that
> right?
you can copy to the right destination directory. It will be easy, if you
download the rpm package such as MySQL-3.23.33-1.386.rpm,
MySQL-client-3.23.33-1.386.rpm.
you can execute:
$ rpm -i <rpm-files>
>
> 3) I treated it as a binary, and followed the instruction for binary
> installation. Then this command line puzzles me:
> shell> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
double dash is a long option. the short option maybe -u.
--ilham--
>
> the double dashes may not be right. What is that?
>
> Have a nice weekend. I come back next Monday hoping to get a good answer
> from you.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kelly
>
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