Original Article: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/216269/#t293801 Solution Source http://www.soluvas.com/installing-sample-data-on-magento-1-4-0-1/ You shouldn’t just copy the media/catalog folder before, but do the steps in this tutorial in order: 1.Create database 2.Load sample DB into database 3.Extract Magento 4.Run installation 5.Ensure you get to the configure database page. Magento will complain about un-writeable directories. chmod or chown these folders (app/etc, var, and […]

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