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.)

Just do it. If there are problems they are workable. I would trust linux/xBSD for this long before I would trust M$. You can share filesystems between the installations. Windoh$ wants to be on the first filesystem of the primary drive, linux really has no limitations in comparison. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml