delete old installation(socket)

[svar]

I backed up my old HD on a new one because of HW problems
I edited lilo and fstab so that now the PC boots and sees
only the new disk. The problem is that I guess I need to kill the old mysql socket(which I cannot copy over from the old filesystem) How do I do that?

Here are the error messages:


010817 17:38:34 mysqld started
010817 17:38:34 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
010817 17:38:34 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ?
010817 17:38:34 Aborting

010817 17:38:34 mysqld ended
Thanks, svar