Elks in VMware

Elks in VMware

[Neil Holmes]

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

Re: Elks in VMware

[Neil Holmes]

I think we can forget this question. I seem to have found a problem with
my tty creation.

Sorry to have wasted time.

Thanks

Neil

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:52, Neil Holmes wrote:
> 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
> 
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