Peter Pelcaro

Well, I seem to have succeeded in installing WordPress, but after several tries of different things. I’m not sure I could write down the necessary steps – but here’s what I think I remember:
1 I threw away the ‘download’ from the WordPress for Beginners CD and used the download suggested by fonglh above, and put that into the ‘root folder’ of my server (‘Abyss’ by Aprelium – a brilliant piece of kit & very easy to install and use(10+ yrs for me), also very secure).
2 I downloaded MySQL and put those files into the same server root folder.
3 I ‘installed’ MySQL – guessing a bit, by using the default db name ‘test’ since I didn’t know how to create a dbname, used the default username of ‘root’ and a strong password.
4 I Installed WP by calling up ..(server root)../wordpress/wp-admin/install.php and putting in a created Site Title name, default username ‘admin’ and a strong password, and pressed a button to install WordPress, which seemed to happen!!
I arrived at a ‘home’ page of my WP site. This can be called up at ..(server root)../wordpress/wp-admin/index.php it seems.
I hope the above is of some use – please accept apologies for it being ‘loosely’ described. Perhaps someone else still floundering could give it a try and make comment. Good luck, and many thanks to those members who posted and helped me to get past this first hurdle. 🙂

Thanks for that post moonstone. I’m glad it’s not just me! So, can anyone out there come to the rescue for not only us, but also those who wish to follow? A BIG thank to anyone who does! 🙂