Intel SSD & Fresh Leopard Install

I have an Intel SSD arriving today. I want to install it in my Mac Pro and then install a fresh copy of Leopard. I want to completely forget about the other hard drive in the machine for now and I will disable it by physically uninstalling it. Therefore my question is:
1. If I install the new Intel SSD can I boot from the Leopard CD and perform a "fresh" install of Leopard ?
2. If so, how do I boot from the CD and is there anything else I have to do?
3. If I later want to add the original hard drive back into the Mac Pro as a storage drive, can I do that?
4. If so, how does it show up in Leopard? I am use to Windows machines; therefore will it be a separate drive?
5. If not, how will Leopard handle it and distributing the data between the SSD and the HDD?
I get the other common sense topics, like back you data up, etc...
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Unless you physically put data on a drive, nothing happens. You/we don't have the option to 'extend' a drive or have a partition mount inside a folder for insance - unless you use hard or symbolic links. But that is not something most people do or not that manner.
Most people setup with boot drive - can be any drive bay; media library drive; perhaps scratch drive or array (for CS4 editing). Maybe internal TimeMachine auto-backup (handy to have 30GB Mac OS boot volume for running maintenance and repairs - something that is done differently).
It will appear in the Finder as it would in Explorer as a drive "F" (or some letter) volume would.
Your home account is in /Users/myaccount
That can be located on a 2nd drive - page 152-3 in "Missing Manual" using Accounts control panel's advanced options to assign /Users/ to be on another volume.
Disabling swap (page file) isn't possible, and most just make sure to have more than enough RAM to never pageout - never - something no one wants to happen and different mind set.
Anything you can do to reduce I/O writes to your boot volume being SSD helps. Disable indexing (spotlight) on boot volume. Don't let CS4 use boot volume for primary scratch (true even w/o SSDs).
iTunes and other Apple and Adobe apps allow you to set default location in program preferences.
Safari - does a whole lot of writing and cache build-up of your bookmarks and web sites and stores those in your home account (denoted by the "~" tilde symbol) at
~/Library/Caches/MetaData - which I manually delete/remove from time to time though Safari has clear caches and a reset preference, it doesn't remove as much as I would - or in the past didn't. That is the type of thing that is fast on SSD but also until TRIM and scavenger is supported (SL?) it causes SSD performance to degrade.
Pairing two SSDs as boot array is easy and can be done in software (Apple Disk Utility) and no need to enter F8 or load drivers. Extreme performance of interest? Also lets you expand from 120GB to 240GB (and allow you to leave more free space as well).
So you could use two drive bays for the system. I chose to just use 10K V-Raptor as boot drive and good enough for my humble needs.
You can boot from USB and FireWire drives, as easily (not as fast!) as your internal drive bays. A feature that have on one Intel mobo but not others.
A clean install along with good maintenance and you really shouldn't need to do a again. SuperDuper and good disk repair program (we dont' rely on just fsck) should keep things working fine unless there is a software error, in which case, just RESTORE the system from last good backup. The system itself probably doesn't have significant changes for weeks. It is user data and account that needs more frequent backups.

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