[drupal-support] Installation issues

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I'm new to Drupal, and new to MySQL for that matter. I want to setup a Drupal personal blogging site, and downloaded the Drupal software to try it out.

I did a fresh install of CentOS Linux, included MySQL, PHP, and Apache in the program installation options; enabled the mysqld service after the install finished, and made sure Apache was running too.

After downloading and untarring the Drupal software, I moved all files per the Drupal install instructions into /var/www/html.

I ran the next line in the installation instructions:

mysqladmin -u dba_user -p create drupal

It prompted for a password; I entered a password and got the following response:

mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'drupal''

MySQL installed a "mysql" user; and I added a "dba_user" user account. I've tried logging in using all three users (mysql, dba_user, and root) and haven't been successful with any of them.

What could I be doing wrong? It's probably a simple thing. I'm very new to both Drupal and MySQL, so I could be missing something very basic.

The version numbers of PHP, Apache, MySQL, and Drupal I'm using are 

php 4.3.9-3.2
mysql 4.1.7-4
httpd 2.0.52-9
Drupal 4.6

Paul