Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-20 Thread PJ
This is the best response todate. ! John Daisley wrote: I have read through your message again because I really could not believe you were having so many issues then it struck me... Thank you for listening... :-) You installed MySQL 6.0.8, an Alpha release on to what seems like a production

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-19 Thread John Daisley
I have read through your message again because I really could not believe you were having so many issues then it struck me... You installed MySQL 6.0.8, an Alpha release on to what seems like a production box and now you are having trouble getting other versions to work? Well this isn't going to b

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-19 Thread Chaim Rieger
PJ wrote: longer a problem... but noweven pgsql was a breeze to install and update... the only reason I'm trying to install mysql is because my ISP Web host is using that... maybe not if I can help it no offense but at this time, perhaps its operator error i've installed my

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-19 Thread PJ
John Daisley wrote: Take a look at the online documentation, it will give you all the info you could dream of regarding error files, installation procedures and configuration issues. I have been looking at this stuff until my eyes pop out - perhaps there is too much of it. It certainly is very

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-19 Thread John Daisley
Take a look at the online documentation, it will give you all the info you could dream of regarding error files, installation procedures and configuration issues. I have never installed MySQL on Freebsd so can't help you there but I have installed it on Redhat, Centos, Solaris, windows and Mac wit

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-19 Thread ceo
First of all, you are using a ports distribution system from BSD which means that you are not dealing with MySQL directly but with a BSD API layer on top of MySQL for installation. So much of your issues may end up being a BSD problem, not a MySQL problem at all. If the BSD scripts that a

Re: installation nightmare

2008-12-18 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi PJ, To be quite honest you may have better luck downloading and installing MySQL yourself. It's very rare I install anything from the ports on FreeBSD or apt repositories on Debian, simply because you have little (if any) control over what goes on. At least if you do it yourself you know