The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mysql-server
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After unpacking 8544kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 89864 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_4.0.24-10sarge2_i386.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mysql not found.
invoke-rc.d returned 100
There is a MySQL server running, but we failed in our attempts to stop it.
Stop it yourself and try again!
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_4.0.24-10sarge2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_4.0.24-10sarge2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)