From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 6:24:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7D637B409 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5PDGts22071; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B373A62.2B73B27F@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:19:30 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Nugent Cc: d t , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: debug screen References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd guess he's hitting up against a hostname problem. MySQL won't install if it can't figure out the hostname of the system. Installing from source won't make any difference. Installing from a command like (using the ports, pkg_add or source) will present you with error messages that will indicate the problem. Before doing anything else, make sure your /etc/hosts file is set up properly. Once that's done, MySQL will install by whatever means you choose. -Bill Jason Nugent wrote: > > Dimitri, > > I've always had good luck building MySQL right from the source, available > on MySQL's website. > > http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html > > If you scroll down a bit, you'll find a link to the tarred source file for > 3.23.39. It 'configure's and 'make's just great on a whole slew of > different FreeBSD versions, including 4.3. > > I haven't tried installing off of the 4.3 CDs so I can't really comment on > that part. > > HTH, > > Jason > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 at 7:58am, d t thought about > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install MySQL-server from the FreeBSD > > 4.3 CDRoms but the installation procedure fails. Then > > I'm adviced to have a look at the "debug screen". > > > > Pardon my stupid question but.. where can I found > > this? :) > > > > Thanks, > > Dimitri -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message