Can I run linux without a file system?

[Dr. Craig Hollabaugh]

At 01:49 PM 6/21/2002 -0700, Tim Lai wrote:
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>>
>> I can say that a minimum RedHat install uses 29,296
>> files – 382.020MB, debian 10,734 files - 67.428MB,
>> my minimal root filesystem 82 files and 4.8MB.
>>
>>
>
>Do I need to install all these files in the file
>system? Can I have "/", with no file in it?


What do you want to do? Do you want a shell, run a program, load a device driver? What is it exactly?

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