William Hunt <wjh@huntbros.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.58.0401090439390.9957@worker.hunt bros.net>...
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, R S Prigan wrote:
> > in SuSE 9.0 I am getting this message
> > "Starting service MySQL failed"
> > in boot.msg
> > ... but it works?!
> > MySQL server version: 4.0.15-Max
> > from SuSE 9 installation
> [...]
> > Any help explaining and getting rid of this message appreciated!
>
> yes. this problem can be easily resolved by first purchasing the
> slackware installation kit from store.slackware.com and then using
> that to install slackware on the machine.

N\oOw I have Slackware 9.1 on two partiions. I installed Mysql from
the Slack disk using pkgtool. It didn't work. I followed the
directions as best I could in the INSTALL-BINARY file in
/usr/doc/mysql*
It still didn't work.
I downloaded a fresh version from mysql.org and installed it in
/usr/local instead of /usr/share. I followed all the instructions. I
can't even change the mysql user password.

On my Slack 9.1 machine Mysql won't run no matter what I do. So your
advice is bogus in my experience. I will try Pstgresql next. It may be
better. It can't be worse.

John Culleton