K. Here are the step-by-step instructions that might help. 1 - Download and unpack the tar.gz file from mysql.com/downloads 2 - Open the Users panel and add a new user called 'mysql' with whatever password you choose. 3 - Open Terminal.app and log on as root 4 - [/] root# cd /usr/local/mysql (or your mysql installation directory)\ 5 - [/usr/local/mysql] root# ./scripts/mysql_install_db 6 - [/usr/local/mysql] root# chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/* 7 - [/usr/local/mysql] root# ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' 8 - [/usr/local/mysql] root# ./bin/mysqld_safe & _OR_ ./bin/safe_mysqld &
That should be it. There are a lot of good books out there that you can check out too, if you want. SAMS Learn MySQL in 21 Days is a good one. Visual QuickStart MySQL by Larry Ullman is a good one too (instructions above are from that book for the MacOSX) I am sure that others can recommend other books, but these are for "beginners". There is an installation script that I can get for you if you want to place the mysqld.server in your initd.d folder to start the server on boot. Also, download the MySQL Control Center and/or MySQL Administrator. Let me know if that helps you any, or if I can help in any other way! J.R. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
