View source for UTOSC 2008/Drupal: From Blank to Blog in 30 Minutes

Slides: http://www.idksoftware.com/UTOSC/BlankToBlog/slides/

Some Drupal modules may have problems with PostgreSQL, as Druapl grew up originally using MySQL only.

To strip to level path:
 tar --strip=1 ...

Create default site settings
 cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/default/settings.php
 chmod 664 sites/default/settings.php
 # uploaded files will be stored here
 mkdir sites/default/files
 chmod 775 sites/default/files

Finish install.  Fix settings permissions:
 chmod 644 sites/default/settings.php

Clean URLs if your server supports MOD Rewrite

Extract new modules to /modules/

image module and image assist module will allow images in blogs.