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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Thanks for checking dd on your setup.  See below.

> I booted BL 3.40, and changed to  /
>
> (By the way, 'which dd' says it's in /bin (symlink to busybox), just as you
> found)
>
> Then I did   dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=32k   and ran out of
> space.  ( swapfile  was about 28Mb)
>
> So I deleted  swapfile  and changed the command to something like
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=20k
>
> and it said   something-or-other records in, something bla bla out.
>
> And  swapfile  was there, about 20Mb ?
>
> All this was while in  /
>
> I didn't check the path, but think it's still the original one of 3.40
>
> Thanks,
> Sheldon

I tried this on a second computer and got the same result.

I neglected to mention that we have set up both computers with inittab set 
to 'respawn' vt1 and go directly to X.

Since I prefer to work in console mode, I first switched to vt2 
(Ctrl-Alt-2) to try to use dd from /, where it did not work on either 
computer.

I just tried it on vt1 (in X) and it works there.

/bin is on the path.  On this second computer my partner put '.' first.

Odd bug?  dd requires being in vt1 and/or /bin to work?  Why can't it be 
found in vt2 when vt1 is in X?  Anyone want to check this on a computer 
where vt1 is not in X, from vt2 / ?  Both our setups go straight to X and 
won't let you get out of it.

The Toshiba sound chip appears to be a Yamaha which is some hybrid of sb 
and wss.  People have suggested ways to use the combination.  The 64MB RAM 
problem is apparently due to my partner adding a 16MB chip to the original 
onboard 32MB, which must be the wrong sort though the right size, and is
identified as 32MB by linux, which causes crashes.  Memtest also thinks it 
is 32MB added and crashes as soon as it tries to test it.  We removed it.

Sindi