Installation Problem with Elxis 2009

[ROUBOS]

Hi,
I got as far as step 4 in the Elxis Installation. I have the Elxis CMS books I bought but they are based on Elxis2008.
Anyway. Step 4 requires a user name and password to connect to the database I have create using PHPMyAdmin.
The thing is that in PHPMyAdmin the usernamer is set to the default root and no password.

When I enter root and nothing in the password fields it does not go to the next installation step cause the password field is required. Entering even a space does not connect to the database.

Do I just exit and start again? Avoid using XAMPP? Uninstall XAMPP and Elxis and start again?
Or do I just edit PHPMyAdmin to set a password for root?

EDIT: Working locally Ubuntu 8.10

[ks-net]

working locally ubuntu and using xampp in system that is a server it's self? since you proceeded with it ...

you can use your phphmyadmin to create a user and password and assign that user to a database

using tab privileges in your phpmyadmin

[ROUBOS]

OK i uninstalled xampp (using this command "sudo rm -rf /opt/lampp/") and will setup Apache server, PHP and MySQL properly and start again


EDIT >>> OK installed Apache, PHP, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin and rapache through the synaptic package manager, and it all works fine now. Sweet