Red hat 7.0 Installation

[The Stranger]

Greetings,
i have been searching around trying to find an answer to a simple question, so if this has been asked, I appologize.

I have a machine with 2 hard drives and I wish to put Linux on the 2nd hard drive. I understand that I have to formate this hard drive, then change the boot sequence in my BIOS, to boot from CD, but my question is, will it ask me what hard drive I want it on? I have Win98 on the other hard drive, and have some important data on it. I would like to fool around with linux and learn it, but only on the 2nd hard drive. I believe that if I put it on the 2nd hard drive, it shouldn't interfere with the 1st. Are my assumptions correct.?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The Stranger

[jglen490]

You can tell the installer for your Linux distro to use your unused space, which by the way does NOT HAVE to be formatted before hand. If you are using a recent RedHat or Mandrake, they each have an "Expert" install mode that you select early in the install process. That will allow you to watch what the installer is doing and pick good options like where to install things.

[The Stranger]

Thanks for the help! I was wondering, you mentioned that I did not need to formate the drive. Is this the case even though I am running Win98, and have software on the drive?