help me pls

thanks for the info Devrim,

by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for
compiling and installation. I'm using FC4. ./cofigure completes immediately
but the gmake running for nearly the whole day. so decide to terminate. (my
system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and 80GB hard disk) give
me a solution.

if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes.
what should i do?

postgres
FATAL: "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory
DETAIL: File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG _VERSION" is missing.

though i have follwed the instructions, somewher i'm missing the concept....
help me please.

regards
suresh