Root password again

Hi.

I’m creating a box with rt3.0.11.
Then I’m going to upgrade that box to 3.4.4

This is as an exercise before doing the real thing.

Now I have successfully imported a 5.6GIG database file into mysql.
The login prompt comes up nicely but I can’t log in with ‘password’.

I went about it like this:
mysql> drop database rt3
mysql> create database rt3
/path/to/mysql/bin/mysql -u user -ppass rt3 <
/somedir/rt3.out-20051017-23 >& /home/lukeV/dump.output

OK.

So. Should I have done?
'make initialize-database’
then imported the dump file

Thanks.
Kind regards.
Luke.

Luke