2 things you can check

  1. The wp user has sufficient rights to the database
  2. You are not installing it on a database that is already set up with wordpress (the normal one). Table clashes can cause this problem
If all else fails 2.8 was pretty stable. Try installing that then upgrading it

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Al Kags <alkags@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Problem is that I keep getting this message regardless of the settings
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_die()  at this
> location /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1147
> Who knows what this is and what I need to do??
>
> Al Kags

Perhaps your db user does not have permissions on the mysql db used by wp ?