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using floppy on Sun solaris

hi everybody

i'm trying to write something on a floppy...please i'm a beginner..how can i manage this?

do i have to mount it first (how ?) and must i be root to such an operation?

thanks for help
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that should help:

man volcheck
man mount_pcfs

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