inital setup of mysql problem

[clara]

I'm trying to get mysql working on redhat 9.0,

Origionaly I got "can't connect to local mysql server
through socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"

I ran /usr/bin/mysql_install_db which corrected this!

Then it started and immediatly stopped using the command
/usr/bin/safe_mysqld.

I looked at the error log in /var/log/mysqld.log
which said can't initialize innodb_data_file.
No idea what that meant so I put:-
[mysqld]
skip-innodb
in the file /etc/my.cnf

Now the only error says /usr/libexec/mysql: can't find file ./mysql/host.frm

I've created a file called /usr/bin/host.frm and set the permission the
same as the other files in there, but it still cant find it? The name
of the machine which is just localhost is in there, anyone know what
needs doing next???

Alex