Local Server issues

[blackde]

Hello,

I would like to start off by saying thank you to everyone here that has worked hard to make all this possible. I have off and on played EQ since the day of its release. My first toon was a human necro on RZ server. I quit playing for abit then came back when kunark was released and started a Iksar necro on the Drinal server. Which was named something before that. After soloing for a time i joined a raiding guild and stayed there till we beat Omens the latest expansion at the time. I was bored of the class at this point and rolled up a Ogre warrior and raided with him till Underfoot. I didn't much care for the content plus the feeling of eq being more like a job then a hobby. So i quit for the last time. As fate would have it i found this place I have tried server 99 some but want to set up a local server of my own to tinker with/ play with my kids. On to my issues lol

Ok so i followed the Complete Windows Server guide. I'm installing it on a 64 bit system. I'm stuck at 6c.) The Database

In the command prompt window cd C:\EQ\SQL brings up C:\EQ\SQL like it should. When i enter mysql -uroot password i get this error:

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

just with that info i'm sure someone knows the answer but i will ask a few questions anyway please.

1)I'm 95% sure i entered a password for MySQL and even wrote it down...but anyway to check it?

2)when you type mysql -uroot it has a -password on the write up. is the - needed before password?

3)has my server got a name yet? where can i check that

i may have more questions later but these should be good for now

thanks for the help