after tonight, I have become one with disksuite. ugh. four hours. (plus, moving / and /usr from one internal disk, to an external disk, on a solaris 2.5.1 box... i've done it so many times now its *easy*... on-the-fly ufsdump, edit vfstab, installboot, halt, set boot-device, boot..) Bedtime. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net Austin, TX