Installation ‘hangs’

when running wp-admin/install.php I receive a welcome-page and am asekd to key in my blog-name and e-mail.
Pressing ‘install wordpress’ returns the ‘word-press logo’ but nothing else.
I was expecting a password ?
So it seems to me the installation failed w/o any error message.
not sure if it’s related: looking at the mysql data-base I see 3 tables created (wp-terms, wp=term-relationship, wp-term-taxonomy)

I am a newbie, and try to run everything on my local-machine running abyss-web-server.

Who can help?
Where can I find more information?
Thks