I've tried to install alfresco with windows xp,tomcat 5.5 and mysql 5.0 .
I got the error
10:44:26,543 ERROR [org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter] Data too long for column 'deleted' at row 1
10:44:26,559 ERROR [org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener] Could not synchronize database state with session
org.hibernate.exception.DataException: Could not execute JDBC batch update
at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:75)
at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:43)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.executeBatch(AbstractBatcher.java:202)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:91)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:86)
at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareBatchStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:171)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2048)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.insert(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2427)
at org.hibernate.action.EntityInsertAction.execute(EntityInsertAction.java:51)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:243)
at org.hibernate.engine.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:227)
etc.