> I did what you said but the system complained that it didn't know what shell > I was using and when the file opened it was in read-only mode so I could not > make any changes to it.
ITYM what "terminal", not shell. TERM=sun-color; export TERM But the system should have asked if you wanted the zpool mounted r/w on /a. Are you sure that it did not? In any case, 'mount -o rw /a' should fix that. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org