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> I will try halt instead, perhaps copied from BL2, maybe a script something 
> like:
> umount -a
> swapoff -a (swapoff /dev/hda3?)
> halt -d 1  (since shutdown won't work)

In /etc/rc I changed the swapon line (designed for DOS loop BL) to
swapon /dev/hda3

Could this be done more automatically during install to hd by some script 
asking which partition is swap?  I had not had the swap partition swapped 
on until now.  (Not that you need it for BL with 96MB RAM and links2).

I wrote a script 'stop' as above but changed to:

swapoff /dev/hda3  (swapon or swapoff -a only do swap files)
halt -d  (the only option for busybox halt - 'don't write to log file').

The swap file is unlikely to get used, with 96MB RAM.  What happens if it 
is in use and not unmounted before powering off?

Does halt do all this anyway?  I got no message about turning off or 
unmounting anything when I ran the 'stop' script instead of just halt.

Man page seems to say halt runs poweroff or shutdown.  Shutdown unmounts 
things that were mounted by the kernel but not additional devices mounted 
after booting.  umount -a is probably not necessary here since the user 
will never mount anything.

Once the snow melts, we can bike over and make changes to this computer to 
undo adduser (no need to type root) and boot into X directly.

I put in the menu 'exit linux, hold power button 5 seconds' on the line 
with 'stop' script.  We keep thinking it is off when it is suspended.