Hello Edmund,
I have a fresh installation of LM 8.0 running on my laptop. I poked
around a bit to see if I could use MySQL, as it was installed with the OS.
You should be able to see the two default databases with the following
command:
[me@mySystem /]$ mysqlshow
This should produce output that looks like:
+-----------+
| Databases |
+-----------+
| mysql |
| test |
+-----------+
You can use the mysqladmin command to create new databases, and do all
kinds of other things. I have some really good notes from a friend; let
me see if I can find them, and I will email them to you a little later...
They may be in MS Powerpoint format, but you should be able to open that
using StarOffice on LM 8.0.
Hope this helps,
Mike
--- "Mitchell, Edmund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello all
>
> I'm trying to take my first steps with either MySQL or PostgreSQL, and
> the
> documentation at those websites, while great, is hard to follow from a
> Mandrake perspective (it seems the files are in different places from
> what
> those websites say is customary, and there must be some small setup
> involved, because things like 'initdb' are producing error messages
> implying
> that all the ducks are not in a row).
> Can someone point me to some LM-specific docs, or tell me the first few
> steps to perform to get things going on a clean install?
>
> Thanks
>
> Edmund
>
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