On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, matthew green wrote: % hmm.. so you boot the ramdisk.fs out of swap, right? and sd0a was already % newfs'ed under solaris? if you run the fsck outside of sysinst, does it % still lose? eg, exit sysinst and run: % % # fsck_ffs -c 3 /dev/rsd0a Yes that command will fail when I exit to a shell from sysinst and run it. Again, it says it can't write to /. - Murray