Bad news: No, this type of thing does not exist as a nice package. Good news: rolling your own isn't to hard.
You can use user mode Linux (UML) to test a system configuration/etc (of course you can't fully test hardware issues, but it will let you test the software/etc). You could use vmware to test a system configuration/etc (of course you can't fully test hardware issues, but it will let you test the software/etc). You can setup extra partitions, i.e. /var2, /usr2, /etc2, whatever and populate them, many RPM's are relocatable, although not all are. One way to get around this would be to chroot into the alternate "/" and then install /etc, reconfigure your lilo.conf/grub.conf, and if it goes boom reboot to the original system. i.e. copy all the rpm's into a dir then do a rpm -Uvh --force --nodep *.rpm, make sure /dev/ is created, copy in /etc, and so on. You could use a tool such as alien to rip the rpm apart and turn it into a tarball, thus allowing you to forcibly relocate files if the rpm doesn't support relocation. http://www.seifried.org/lasg/software/ Hope this helps. Kurt Seifried, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://seifried.org/security/
