2nd HD (slave drive)

I'll try to get this all out without to much rambling!
My original 60GB HD was maxed out, so I recently installed a 2nd internal HD (western digital 250GB) as a slave drive. I want to install my OS (tiger) onto this slave drive. This new drive does contain picture & music backup. Does this data need to be removed to install Tiger? Do I need to change the slave setting? Should I clear the drive and partition it?
Reason:
I recently installed iLife '08. This was required to be installed on the original 60G HD because this is where the os is. When I imported my pictures (all stored on the new WD 250G HD) to iPhoto, it copied them to the 60G HD...NOT ENOUGH ROOM! Thus, the photo library is incomplete.
I'd like to install Tiger to the new 250 Hd and boot up from there, install iLife there, and be off and running.
Is this all possible? Does this make sense? Or am I being ignorant to some simpler solutions? I am open to all suggestions. Thank you much!
Running OS X 10.4.11 on G4 Quicksilver, 933MHz, 2MB L3 cache, 1.12 GB ram, 60GB HD, 250 HD

I don't use iPhoto but it's not set up like iTunes where you can set preferences to keep your iTunes library and media on a different drive? (I just started iPhoto with the option key held down and it asked me which library I wanted to use, so I think it can.) Lots of people keep all their iTunes library contents on separate drives because they have inadequate space on their internal drives. With iTunes you can drag the library folder to a different drive, then start iTunes with the option key held down to tell it the new location of the library. Also set things up in preferences.

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