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I just tried installing Drupal 6 and CiviCRM v2.1 on my home Ubuntu server so that I might be able to do some testing and answer http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4822.0.html but I ran into trouble.

I use a slightly modified Drubuntu http://groups.drupal.org/node/6266 setup, the primary modification being that I have a separate sites directory that I link to

Basic directory structure:
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6 -> 6.4             // the Apache docroot
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6.4                  // the Drupal 6.4 install
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6.4/sites -> home/fen/workspace/sites
/home/fen/workspace/sites/default -> drupal.6
/home/fen/workspace/sites/drupal.6              // the virtual host
/home/fen/workspace/sites/drupal.6/settings.php // the Drupal settings file
/home/fen/workspace/sites/drupal.6/modules/civicrm -> /home/fen/workspace/civicrm/v21
/home/fen/workspace/civicrm/v21 -> v2.1-beta4
/home/fen/workspace/civicrm/v2.1-beta4          // which is the CiviCRM v2.1 install

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/drupal.6 contains:
<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName 6
        ServerAlias *.6
        DocumentRoot /home/fen/workspace/drupal/6
</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default contains:
NameVirtualHost *
ServerName localhost

<Directory /home/fen/workspace>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php
        FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php
        Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>
Finally, /etc/hosts contains the line:
127.0.0.1 localhost drupal.6
Drupal 6.4 installed correctly (and I have many Drupal 5 sites that use a similar structure).

With this setup, the 'install/index.php path would be a but different.  Going to:

  http://drupal.6/sites/drupal.6/modules/civicrm/install/index.php

yields:

Oops! Please Correct Your Install Location
Please untar (uncompress) your downloaded copy of CiviCRM in the sites/all/modules directory below your Drupal root directory. Refer to the online Installation Guide for more information.

This is a pain as I like to keep all my CiviCRM releases under /home/fen/workspace/civicrm and link to the one I want to use from the sites/PROJECT/modules/ directory.  This allows multisites to each use different versions of CiviCRM. 

So I figured maybe "sites/all/" is hardwired somehow, so I put CiviCRM directly into "sites/all/modules/" to yield this directory structure (same as before except the last line replaces the previous last three lines):
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6 -> 6.4             // the Apache docroot
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6.4                  // the Drupal 6.4 install
/home/fen/workspace/drupal/6.4/sites -> home/fen/workspace/sites
/home/fen/workspace/sites/default -> drupal.6
/home/fen/workspace/sites/drupal.6              // the virtual host
/home/fen/workspace/sites/drupal.6/settings.php // the Drupal settings file
/home/fen/workspace/sites/all/modules/civicrm   // which is the CiviCRM v2.1 install
Now going to:

  http://drupal.6/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/index.php

yields:

Oops! Incorrect Drupal Version
This version of CiviCRM can only be used with Drupal 6.x. Please ensure that '/home/fen/workspace/modules/system/system.module' exists if you are running Drupal 6.0 and over. Refer to the online Installation Guide for information about installing CiviCRM.

Note that this error is referring to /home/fen/workspace/modules/system/system.module when the file is actually found under the Apache docroot, e.g.,  /home/fen/workspace/drupal/6/modules/system/system.module

There's nothing in the error_log.  This is the only clue I have.  Any ideas?