I have just installed Cobalt MySQL Release 3.23.37-1

What do I do next? What is no instructions??...

What kind of instructions? On how to use MySQL for database applications? Try http://www.mysql.com.

:D

Well,
I don't want to be rude,
but if you have no clue what to do,
you probably don't need it....

http://www.mysql.com :D
LoL
Well, it's a really STANDARD answer, hehe, but a good one, this page has EVERYTHING you need....

You also might want to try PHPMyAdmin

I managed to get it working now.

1 Question how do you change the MySQL root password?

RTFM:smash:


Try this for a start
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/Intro/

1 Question how do you change the MySQL root password?

Telnet into the box as admin and su to root

Run mysql -u root -p

(default root passwd is cobalt-mysql)

Now you're at the mysql prompt: mysql>

mysql> set password for root=password('yournewpassword');

For a RaQ3 and RaQ4, here's how you change the default MySQL root password.

Telnet into your RaQ as admin and type "su -" to login as root

Next, issue the following command to change the root password.

mysqladmin -uroot -pcobalt-mysql password NEW-PASSWORD

If it works, you won't get any message, it'll just return the prompt again. Type "exit" and press Enter to log out completely (do it twice).


This is a quote (Step 10) from http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/howto/casp_mysql_howto.html