Can I boot 10.5 from an external hard drive?

Hi Folks,
I thought I was able to create a bootable external firewire hard drive containing Mac OS X 10.5 but having no luck. I would like to be able to test some legacy software on it and cannot get it to even boot. I have an 80 GB external drive with 2 partitions (8GB and the rest storage); GUID partition. The 8GB portion has the 10.5 installer I created from an install DVD.
I followed all the instructions but it doesn't seem to work from my Yosemite MacBook Pro 10.10.2 (2.5 intel core i5). Is it not possible because of Yosemite already being installed and it doesn't like I am trying to boot an early version of Mac OS X? Thanks for the help!

Limnos wrote:
Unless this is some super special printer that has no modern equivalent you may want to reconsider.  I haven't run things in server software but sometimes hardware can be picky and too much translation from Leopard to Yosemite (since you do have to run a Yosemite controlled cable out of the computer) will end up losing too much.  I guess if you're the kind of person who loves trying to make this kind of thing work then fine, but if the bottom line is you need a printer you can pick one up in less time than it will take fiddling around, and not much more cost.
Thanks for the advice - yes I am going to have to fiddle. Good to know that there is a 10.5 server option but I think I will do an install of 10.5 on another older laptop or just go the windows pc route.

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