Thanks dranakan.
I was under the impresion the mysqld service was already running. Anyway, that took care of it.
Now, I have a concern. Maybe it's nothing to worry about, but I'd like to be on the safe side.
When the MySQL system tables were being installed, a warning message came up:
option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295
Is that something I should worry about? Researched it on mysql.com but found nothing would tell me not to worry.
Thanks, Ricardo