Installation to dedicated disk

It is my intention to create a dual boot environment where Windows XP resides wholly on the first disk (over several partitions, all NTFS) and Dapper Drake ubuntu resides wholly on a second disk, again suitably partitioned.

Previous experience with ubuntu (5.10) was that the installer, or Lilo would attempt to write to the MBR on the first disk, thus wrecking the Windows installation - not a bad idea, do I hear:-)

I want to ensure that Lilo, or Grub for that matter, installs only to the second, ubuntu disk and leaves my Windows boot sector alone: I will use the Windows XP Boot Loader to get to ubuntu.

Is it possible for me to be assured that this is possible, and that the Dapper Drake installation routine will be sufficiently explicit so as to militate against accidents?

Many thanks for any help with this.

Peter HB

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