trufflesdad <ted@nospam.trufflesdad.plus.com> writes:

> I am contemplating installing Gentoo......Must it be installed to a
> primary drive ??...I have a spare hdb6 and would like to put it on
> there...

Sure. The only problem anyone runs into is booting the system, but
grub makes it easy. I hardly remember how to use lilo anymore, but
if you are good with lilo you can make that work also.