How do I install a snow Leopard on a second internal drive

I just installed a 2nd internal drive on my MacPro (1,1). I have Snow Leopard (SL) already installed and running on my primary boot drive that works well.
I am looking to make the second drive a mavericks boot drive so I can switch back and forth between SL and Mavericks. I understand I must install SL before moving up to mavericks.
Problem is the SL install DVD does not offer me an option to select a drive other than the startup drive (original drive) to install the software.
The 2nd drive is formatted Mac OS Journaled, 1 partition using GUID. I did this using Disk Utility.
Any Ideas on how I can get SL installed so I can move up to Mavericks?
Side note: I have to keep Snow Leopard as an option because some of my software will not run under Mavericks

I tried to install Mavericks with a USB drive. I started up holding the option key using the boot manager, selected the USB drive, the boot manager froze, then booted to my original snow leopard drive. I'm thinking of using my laptop to put my MacPro into Target Disk Mode to see what happens.

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