It’s probably not a permissions issue – i’m getting the same errors, even when creating the config file manually and chmoding everything to 777.
I’m getting this error from step 1:
SQL/DB Error:
[Table ‘wordpress.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT option_name, option_value FROM wp_options
If i ignore it and go on, it all blows up on step 3 with a load of bad queries and duplicate messages. The blog seems to work, but i gotta wonder if the db was set up properly.
This is on OS X 10.3 (Panther), php 4.32, mysql 2.23.49, installing 1.01. I successfully installed 1.0 (no errors) on a different machine with the same configuration.