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I have tried to install CiviCRM 1.9 on Drupal using web-based Automated Installer. The only installation error I’ve got is “Is the temporary folder writeable? | The temporary folder isn't writeable!” but I can’t spring it over. 
My site placed on hosting provider and I don’t have direct access to system shell. My hosting provider surely turned safe mode on (I have checked with phpinfo()) and it’s typical setting for the most of them. I know that most of hosts limit access to /tmp directory, does it mean that installation of CiviCRM totally impossible on hosted sites??
I can easily change file permissions via FTP if I could know where the wished folder is situated. I’ve used some hours searching different strings throw PHP code, but I couldn’t find out where this magical folder is placed.
Today I attempted to install on Joomla, still unsuccessfully …
The error is
“Upload new component - Error
Failed to copy file: /hsphere/local/home/...../joomla/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php to /hsphere/local/home/...../joomla/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php”
Desperately moved installation directory to different Joomla catalogues without visible results.
I’m totally disappointed ... wasted 2 days to install CiviCRM on Drupal and then one day to Joomla …
Unfortunately CiviCRM is a most suitable application because it combines all the necessary facilities for non profit organization as we are (Union of Danish people with rare disorders). We have wasted a lot of hours to find such system but now we should look for something else.

If anybody knows the solution of installation problem or other free CRM systems at this kind, please help us. 

Drupal status rapport looks fine:

Drupal   5.3
Configuration file   Protected
Cron maintenance tasks   Last run 38 sec ago
You can run cron manually.
Database schema   Up to date
File system   Writable (public download method)
GD library   bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
MySQL database   4.1.21
PHP   5.2.2
Unicode library   PHP Mbstring Extension
Web server   Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/5.2.2 mod_throttle/3.1.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_psoft_traffic/0.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

Joomla runs also fine and additional modules can be easily installed.

Now I’m trying to manually set up CiviCRM for Drupal but it’s not so easy because some inconsistencies between instructions on the support site and contents of installation files.
I should check it carefully and post new topic to the forum …. 

Anyway thanks for the link to www.techsoup.org, there are some interesting systems, but CiviCRM is still most suitable for us …

I'm running civicrm with drupal in a shared hosting environment.  Still working on CiviMail, but mostly up to the point of tackling the soapimap if necessary.  Just got cron job to send out mailings working yesterday.