Multiple installations

[Phillip Mills]

When it comes to PC hardware, I really don't, therefore I have what's 
probably a ridiculous question.

I set up a machine with a single hard drive partitioned to dual-boot 
between NT Workstation and SuSE Linux.  I use my current Linux 
installation for all kinds of volatile stuff: trying out various SW 
packages, my own development projects....  I would like to have a 
second, bootable Linux environment on that computer that would stay 
relatively clean as a "production" server where I could demo stuff to 
clients without wondering what my latest downloads mangled.

I've done this on Macs where it's as simple as adding another drive, 
installing a second copy of the system, and choosing which 
volume/partition to boot from.  With PCs, however, I've heard horror 
stories from others about failing to boot because of number, location, 
or size of a given partition...or master vs. slave drives.  Are there 
warnings/guidelines for what I want to do?  (It sounds like it should 
be a "just do it", but others' experiences make me nervous.)

........................
Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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