I'm getting errors. Has anyone went through doing this? I'm a beginner at Linux, Unix, and mySQL, but not a beginner on computers.
Is mySQL ready to go after I install Linux? I've tried to start it via safe_mysqld and it seems to work but when I execute mysqladmin ping or version it says 'connect to server at localhost failed' and then says some stuff about the sock file.
Another question... I'm guessing Linux used an RPM during its own install to install mySQL. I've looked around and I can't tell when I'm reading about RPM related installs vs. other installs. How different are the installs? I can't even determine if my install is a binary distro or a source distro? I doubt Redhat unpacked mySQL, compiled and installed not using the RPM thingy.
Any advice would be nice. I follow direction well and I read well if I could find something specific to the Redhat/mySQL/install/RPM issue. Even the Redhat and mySQL docs don't cover this in great detail.
Thanks,
Dwayne