I get nothing and total chaos

I installed an additional wp installation and then I installed BuddyPress. And what did I get? Nothing and total chaos. What on earth is this so-called automatic setup they are bragging about? No pages were created and what pages there should be! doesn’t appear like it does with a number of other social plugins, for example. This BuddyPress is something that can only be considered “Do it yourself plugin”! Well, I just had to give up again. But now I’ve at least tested it on a clean new wp installation and it didn’t go any better than previous attempts. Waste of time, nothing more or less.