Please fire whoever wrot[sic] those install instructions, you've completely cut out and alienated the population who is not very web savvy.
I got a laugh out of the thread this quote came from. Being said person how wrote the installation instructions, I guess I should be fired.
As much as I'm the first one to admit there is always room for improvement in my work, it never ceases to amaze me how many people walk into setting up Movable Type believing it's like installing MS Word on their desktop. No matter how hard any technologist tries, whether it be Microsoft or Six Apart, installing server-based software (remotely nonetheless) will always be a more complex affair then anything on you face on your desktop. Imagine everytime someone in your neighborhood crashed their computer, yours and every neighbor's machine went with it. A scenario like this is only the beginning of what you face.
So here is some advice. If you have never installed software on a server and want a weblog stick with TypePad and if you absolutely must have Movable Type, spring for the extra fee a MT hosting partner like Pair Networks to do it for you.
