Elks in VMware

[Neil Holmes <neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk>]

I was looking for a reasonable interim test environment for the Elks
Distribution. I use VMware a lot and assumed that this would be the
place. However I have not been able to get Elks to boot under VMware (I
have version 3.0). The boot starts (four dots), then "Boot Failed. Is
there anything that I need to know here ?

I have also tried dosemu as a test environment. It installs fine but,
because I have to alt-f2 to see my login on a hard drive root install (I
assume that is normal ?) I can't login. Is there any way you can alt-f2
under dosemu ?

Failing these two environments can anyone suggest any others that will
overcome my issue ?

Have I overlooked something that means my hard drive installation of
Elks would not require alt-f2 after boot to give me my login prompt ?

Many Thanks for any assistance with this.

Neil