I was wondering whether any of you knew how to dual boot windows (xp in this case) and debian. The problem is the PC already has windows xp on one drive and I want to add another hard drive and put debian on that. Anyone know how to go about this or could you direct me to a site that might have information on it. (I have been searching google, but no luck yet) [addsig]

Well, usually this is no problem. But I don't know Debian. Distros that have a bootable install cd (maybe there is some .iso with debian out there) simply let you install on the other drive and then set up your lilo with two boot options.

So, the problem is to get into your Linux for the first time. Once you're there you'll have lilo configured easily.

I run Linux (Sourcemage distro) and XP dual boot and never had trouble with it.
[addsig]

that really should't be a big problem. just make sure you install debian on the right harddisk well, you'll probably want debian to install LILO in the MBR so lilo gets loaded at bootup.
Then you'd just add the following to you /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and restart:

other=/dev/<harddisk xp is installed on>
label=WindowsXP

as for debian iso's, try http://www.debian.org/CD/

it worked for me before, but WindowsXP (and 2k) bitch around about these ext* drives (or all other FSs unknows to wind2k/XP). It will take years to boot windows. I had a dual-boot with debian, mandrake and winXP and win2k before, and win2k and winXP loaded _hell_ slow. They took about 10mins to even get to the login screen. And, it's not the fault of my PC:
1GHz Athlon, 1/2GB RAM (SD, PC133, CL3), 80GB HDD (7200RPMs, 8.5s seek time, ATA-100, DMA enabled), GF2MX-200, SB-Live! 5.1
When I switched back to win98 evenrything worked seemlessly, even with the linux partitions.
seems like Win2k and higher has problems with unknown partition types.
[addsig]

Really strange! My WinXP boots in a matter of seconds, no joke! No matter what's wrong with your setup, but it won't be fair to blame MS this time [addsig]