At 12:54 PM 8/27/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello -
>
>I'm very new at this, so please pardon the very beginner questions...
>
>I'm attemtping to install MySQL to my local machine running Win98. The
>install seems to go alright, but when I try "mysqld--standalone" it
>gives me an error. Then I tried "mysqld -standalone", which seemed to
>work.
>
>Then I entered, "mysqladmin create testDB" and I got the error message
>"Can't connect to MySQL Server on 'localhost'. I tried telnetting to
>"telnet localhost 3306" and got an error that it couldn't connect.
>
>Can anyone offer help?
Yeah, try double clicking on the winmysqladmin.exe icon.
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