wrapster: Maybe you should post your question in the Sun / Solaris forum, or the Advanced forum, and/or be more explicit about what you want to accomplish. Linking to your old thread might also be a good idea. Anyway, this is not a shell programming question by any stretch; a posting to a more appropriate forum is more likely to be seen by people who know about this stuff.

If you somehow manage to squeeze the file you want onto the live image, perhaps it would be more productive to try to explore whether you can somehow use it directly from the image, rather than copy it to a new location.