JustZisGuy wrote: > But what has me stumped is that when it starts the actual installation process of creating folders and copying files, it modifies the file permissions - in such a way that it can no longer write to the folder! And the installer bombs out. Examples please! On *NIX you can't create directories/files so you yourself won't be able to access at all. You can always change permissions on such files/directories to whatever you need.