Someone else asked this question last week,  and it turned out that she had downloaded 
the Sun/SPARC version (as you did) and tried to install it on a Sun/Intel system...

If you type "uname -a",  what does the display tell you ??

zhiheng_huang wrote:

> Hi,
> I try to install mysql-3.22.32-sun-solaris2.7-sparc on our department's SUN machine 
>and I failed several times. Is it possible to install this database on general user( 
>since I am not the root)? I followed the steps to install( ater I got the directory 
>for mysql-3.22.32-sun-solaris2.7-sparc ):
> ln -s mysql-3.22.32-sun-solaris2.7-sparc mysql
> cd mysql
> scripts/mysql_install_db
> Then it failed. below is the error information:
> ***************************
> WARNING: Your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible with this MySQL version
> mysqld should work normally with the exception that host name resolving
> will not work.  This means that you should use IP addresses instead
> of hostnames when specifying MySQL privileges !
> Creating db table
> Creating host table
> Creating user table
> Creating func table
> Creating tables_priv table
> Creating columns_priv table
> ld.so.1: ./bin/mysqld: fatal: libcrypt_i.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
> Killed
>
> Installation of grant tables failed!
>
> Examine the logs in ./data for more information.
> You can also try to start the mysqld demon with:
> ./bin/mysqld --skip-grant &
> You can use the command line tool
> ./bin/mysql to connect to the mysql
> database and look at the grant tables:
>
> shell> ./bin/mysql -u root mysql
> mysql> show tables
>
> Try 'mysqld --help' if you have problems with paths. Using --log
> gives you a log in ./data that may be helpful.
>
>


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