Unable to install on 2nd internal drive

I have 2 internal hard drives, the startup drive only has 19 GB capacity and only 1 GB left so I am trying to change the startup to my other internal drive which is 150GB. I tried to intall the OS onto the 150GB drive by restarting with installation cd and holding C, but it says that it cannot boot from that drive. Can anyone help me with this problem?

You can use a backup program like SuperDuper and clone your small drive onto the larger drive. It works flawlessly for me.

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