For reasons i could never figure out, the "standard" way of setting up MySQL never worked for me.
NB, setting up, not installing!. SirDice said pretty much everything there is to installing MySQL.
The Problem was in setting up post-install with the random/generic root-password which never worked for me.
I've come to appreciate the
# sysrc mysql_args="--initialize-insecure --user=mysql"
# sysrc mysql_args="--skip-grant-tables"
commands
