You may find the following resources useful while installing and configuring your Magento store:

Magento User Guide
Expert Instruction for Launching Your Online Store
New and Updated for Magento Community 1.9
Description
The Magento Community Edition User Guide is designed to help merchants launch successful online stores on Magento Community Edition. Written for store owners and site administrators, this book walks you through the end to end process of installing the software; setting up your site hierarchy, catalogs, and products; and managing customers, orders, payment options, and the look and feel of your site.
Download Guide

Magento Installation
Installing and Verifying Magento
Description
Article on Magento's website describing how to install Magento. This article contains information about prerequisites, preparation of the server, installation, verification and troubleshooting.
Read Article

Magento Wiki
Knowledgebase
Description
A big list of articles driven by Magento's community aimed at designers , developers and users of Magento.
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stackoverflow.com
Q&A website
Description
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. You will find hundreds of answered questions to help you solve virtually any issue on Magento's programming.
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Magento Stack Exchange
Q&A website
Description
Another good resource for finding answers on Magento related issues.
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