So far: Two years now I use drupal for my site with no problems. Lets say my site is www.example.com
What I try to do: I want to create a new site, at the subdomain books.example.com and run it with the already installed drupal, to take advantage of the multisite installations (so, when I upgrade the core or install modules, I do that once etc.)
I tried to follow the steps here but obviously I did something wrong.
What I did:
Step 1, I have already drupal running at public_html/sites
Step 2, I created a new mysql database (myname_books) and a subdomain (lets call it books.example.com)
Step 3, I created the /sites/books.example.com folder and copied there default.settings.php from /sites/default. I renamed it settings.php.
Step 4, I changed the permissions for this file (question: also for the file settings.php at /sites/default? I am not sure, so I tried both) to 666.
Step 5. I point my browser to www.example.com/install.php and I get this:
Drupal already installed
To start over, you must empty your existing database.
To install to a different database, edit the appropriate settings.php file in the sites folder.
To upgrade an existing installation, proceed to the update script.
View your existing site.