Troubles with intstall of Hacks

[focusedonsound]

here is the scenario!

Last week

Formatted Maxtor 80gb drive I had laying around
Installed new Software as per Zipper instructions

Everything works great!

Went to go install a different Tivowebplus Skin I found here and I am told I don't have write privileges in any of the directory's on my Tivo!

I would also like to install Hack Manager as well but I feel that the same problem is hindering me from doing so as well.

Thanks in advance for any and all help
Focusedonsound

[focusedonsound]

now somehow i just lost my entire TivoWebPlus directory and can't figure out how to get it back i tried to re-install it as per the TivoWebPlus instructions but nothing seems to work I copied tivowebplus-v2.0.0-070518.tgz to the /var/hack directory and when I type

tar -x tivowebplus-2.0.0-070518.tgz

nothing seems to happen


Im following these directions

1) If it's running, 'Quit' TWP.
2) Telnet in and at bash:
rw (mount readwrite)
rm -rf /TivoWebPlus (assuming TWP is in root, remove TivoWebPlus)
3) delete config files in /var/TWP/config.
cd /var/TWP/config
ls (see what's in there. okay to delete all of them)
rm tivoweb.cfg
4) get the latest TWP from http://thomson.tivo.googlepages.com/TivoWebPlus
5) FTP it to (my suggestion) /var/hack
6) telnet to /var/hack and untar
cd /var/hack
tar xtar xvzf tivowebplus-v2.0.0-070313.tgz
cd TivoWebPlus
./tivoweb
ro
7) While your at it. Get the latest Hackman http://www.tivohackman.com/ (follow his instructions), and bufferhack
8) Don't forget to edit your rc.sysinit.author file in /etc/rc.d to start TWP in /var/hack/TivoWebPlus so it starts on reboot.

That's it.

[focusedonsound]

disregard fixed problem

[lloydjs]

what did you do to fix the problem?