Best way to move to an external boot drive

I going to move my main iMac boot drive to an external as I need to be able to pick it up and go and use it on the move with my MBP.
What is the best way to clone the iMac's internal and then put it on the external. Both drives are 320GB in size.
Can I use CCC or should I use disk utility from the boot DVD to create an image and then restore it to the external? My thinking behind the Boot DVD way is that nothing will be running when I do it...
Regards

Normally doesn't matter. The code running the machine is stored in RAM. CCC and other cloning apps duplicate what's stored on disk. The only problem you might run into is if you try to save something while you're cloning. For your purposes, since you're doing this for the first time, run CCC, and go get a coffee and a danish. Or, just watch what's taking place.

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