Blank install.php

Running Debian
Apache
Mysql (4.0.18)
PHP (4.3.4)
When I run through wp-admin/install-config.php the second step just has the WordPress header and is then blank. I figure, ok, I probably need to manually edit the file.
I copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it so that it looks as follows:
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘gordy’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘gord’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘MYPASSWORD’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
When I go to wp-admin/install.php I just get a blank page (IE 6 and Firebird 0.8) There is nothing in the source, and no errors logged anywhere)
I have installed the php-mysql module as suggested in another thread. Restarted both Apache and MySQL. I have absolutely no idea what’s wrong. (the database gordy exists and the user gord has permission to do pretty well everything to that database) Any ideas? (oh it’s WordPress 1.02)