Install leopard on a G5 - upgrade from OS 10.4.11

Trying to update my son's G5 to Leopard. Got the retail 10.5 DVD. He has 2 matching maxtor 233GB drives. 1) Can I do the install to the "2nd" drive. The #2 drive has the arrow attached to be mable to dismount (hope that is correct) The "1st" has the old OS on it & if the update fails it would be good to be able to still boot up. Any pointers would appreciated. Many of his adobe applications are on the second HD, but I assume they can be easily reinstalled if the new OS takes. Thanks.

Hopefully those Maxtor HDs are FireWire, since it's 40-50% faster than USB 2 and designed for data transfers. If so, make a bootable backup/clone before updating/upgrading and ensure that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall anything. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
Once that's done, see these for info on the three installation options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5757385
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5666369
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5646414

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