This is happened on live server with GD hosting and on a local wamp server. In my local development set-up I have cranked up all of the php.ini settings to compensate for any possible timeouts, upload sizes etc.
I've never had this issue with any other components but I know that you are most likely right as typically I'm not unpacking a 25MB database. (Even though I have database sizes grown to over 10 gigs in data)
So what's the next thing to do?? As a test I imported the database as a SQL file directly into phpmyadmin and it took 5 seconds to do. Could the issue be the compression? Unpacking a 1.4MB database into 25MB during the install process?
There must be an easier way mate, and I do appreciate your time greatly. Our firm is a law firm and we build sites for every case that we file. To have this component working would be awesome to us, which is why I really WANT to donate if I can get this working!
Cheers!