We have installed the Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe Edition on a Pentium III PC
(450MHZ) with 128MB RAM. We installed the Workstation option. The OS is
Windows 98 Millennium Edition. There are 2 Hard Drives. The 6GB Drive has
Windows 98 Millennium Edition installed. The 4GB Drive has the Red Hat Linux
7.1 Deluxe Edition installed.
We would like to create databases in MySQL and use PHP scripting to enable
the apache web server to provide access to the database via an intranet or
the internet.
Initially we selected MySQL to be installed during the Red Hat Linux
installation. When we ran the ³mysqladmin u root ping² command we received
an error message stating that the MySQL Daemon did not start.
We then ran ³./bin/safe_mysqld ‹user=mysql &² command which started the
Daemon, but we still could not launch MySQL.
We contacted Red Hat Support and they pointed us to your site where we
printed out ³Installing MySQL². However we are still having problems with
the installation.
1. We created a Directory /usr/local/mysql and copied the following files
from the Red Hat Linux 7.1 CD to the /usr/local/mysql Directory:
mysql-3.23.36.1.i386.rpm : mysql-devel-3.23.36.1.i386.rpm
:mysql-3.23.36.1.i386.rpm : mysqlclient9-3.23.22.4.i386.rpm :
mysqlserver-3.23.36.1.i386.rpm
2. We then ran the rpm i MySQL-VERSION.i386.rpm
MySQL-client-VERSION.i386.rpm Command from the /usr/local/mysql Directory
and received an error message that the file did not exist.
3. We then ran the rpm i mysql-3.23.36.1.i386.rpm
mysqlclient9-3.23.22.4.i386.rpm Command from the /usr/local/mysql Directory.
Something happened, but the var/lib/mysql Directory was not created.
Could you please help with the installation. Can we make MySQL accessible
via the KDE main menu if the installation is successful?
Best regards
Gavin Phillips-Page
