Installing Drupal

Am installing Drupal 7.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.4

I upgraded the PHP 5.1.6 to 5.3 following a set of instructions I found detailing the removal of the old PHP and installation of PHP53 (and other extensions like gd). I think I've done this correctly - my other php/mysql dependent applications on this server seem to work fine.

When I go to my drupal base directory, the first page takes about 3 minutes to load, and when it does, I just get the text and no graphics (actually, I get a broken-picture icon for the banner).

Let me know if I am in the wrong section to post in. If so I apologize!

I am extremely new to this cms stuff.

In one of my class groups we are trying to make a dating site for attractive people (lol), but we really don't know too much about exactly how to do it.

Two questions:

1)How would we make users searchable with Drupal taxonomy based on their profiles? (this is the most important question right now)

Hello.

I've tried to install Drupal 6.20 on 2 different os (Mac os 10.6 & Debian 6.0) which both have
PHP 5.3.3-7 with Suhosin-Patch and the installation never started.

It comes up with warnings in error log like variable is undefined in bootstrap.inc and I think it has some problems for mysql join. (I am not in office atm, but when get back I'll post in detail the error log)
The installation is not proceeding, not even the wizard screen starts. Just a white screen.

Drupal 7 Installs perfectly with no problem or error.

Hello,

Back when i used drupal 6 i could use a nice little module called node_import however i have moved into drupal 7 and now cant find any modules that would perform the same task, i have over 10,000 nodes i need to create and have all the data stored in a csv file. Any ideas anyone?

I just migrated my site from a public srver (linux) to localhost(wamp).I used MySql Dumper to export the database and the same program for restoring it..I changed the settings.php with the new db properties.
Now When I go to the front page I get a blank page..Nothing on it..
On other pages I also get "page not found" error...
The db in phpMyadmin seems ok and the files are twice exported in the wamp www folder..