Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

Question

I am on a server that has afresh install on RHEL 5. I was able to install Apache and PHP just fine., but I am having serious trouble with my MySQL installation. I tried t

Answer 1

In Windows run the following commands in the command prompt as adminstrator

Step 1:
mysql_install_db.exe

Step 2:
mysqld --initialize

Step 3:
mysqld --console

Step 4:
In windows

Step 4:
mysqladmin -u root password "XXXXXXX"

Step 5:
mysql -u root -p