I would like to know how to write and/or download files to root in Fedora 5. Even as I am longed in as root it tells me "You do not have permissions to write to this folder."

I have worked on this a bit now and I feel I will be pulling my hair out soon.

Thank you for the help!

how are you logging in as root?

Did you login directly with user 'root' or use the 'su' command? If you used 'su' remember to put the hyphen '-' after su. This makes sure that the login scripts for the target user are read.

Type 'id' and see whether your uid and gid have a value of 0.

Type the 'mount' command without argumaents to see if the root partition '/' is mounted 'ro' or 'rw'. To perform a write operation it needs to be mounted read-write (rw).

If you are logged in as a different user, you will be limited to downloading files to your $HOME, /tmp, /usr/tmp directories.