Did the page stale a bit before giving you this message ? Like several seconds ? One good tip is to increase PHP's max_execution_time configuration variable. Pick php.ini, spot the directive and make it as follows :
max_execution_time = 120
After restarting your webserver and trying again loading the page, you should be landing on the second screen of the installation wizard. If not, you may want to slightly increase the max allocated memory to PHP, as follows :
memory_limit = 128M
Let us know how things go Michael, Cheers,
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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
Member of the Community Project Board
Let us know how well you are gearing-up on eZ Publish. As you could see the forums are generally pretty helpful (try using the search function to check whether a question you would have was already replied in the past). The knowledge base also is a good way to start with eZ Publish : http://share.ez.no/learn
Cheers !
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Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
Member of the Community Project Board