I screwed up MySQL *big-time*, help :S

[michaelsanford]

On my RedHat 9 machine, I wanted to upgrade MySQL from 3.23 to 4.0.

The RPM installer for server just quits when finding module inter-dependancies. So, I downloaded the Linux x86 standard build, and overwrote /usr/local/mysql/ with the new one, and then ran ./configure. That was perhaps slightly hasty. Thankfully there is no data to lose on this system, since it hasn't been deployed yet, but as you can imagine this set-back is preventing my bringing it on-line.

Well, now I'm left with no MySQL, since I deleted all the files I could find on my hard disk related to MySQL, but now have no way of installing it (that I can understand readily ).

Any suggestions?

 

[pds]

*windows helpdesk voice*

Well, just use a startup floppy, reformat your primary master hard drive and re-install the system

*/helpdesk voice


Sorry, couldn't resist. And I can't help, except to encourage you to keep smiling. Interesting that you have hopes for a 200 mhz machine as a deployed database server. Is that realistic? Is it on your own intranet? Is your redhat running as a terminal or do you use a gui?

 

[michaelsanford]

Hehe actually I realised that when I installed the system I forgot to install, umm, gcc...so I think I'm going to do a clean install anyway and re-organize my packages.

As far as the system, yes I am running it on the GUI (most of the time) but there are only 3 users of the system. It's very low-load... I use it mostly for design, so I don't have to open up my iMac to the world, I can use this isolated system; it's also great learning tool.