Can I create a boot drive for a G4 with a MacPro ?

Hi everybody,
Beside rebuilding my MacPro whcich I am in the process of doing (see my previous post), I am trying to rebuild my old Power Pc Quick Silver G4 the way it was before a HD started to fail me.
Is it possible to Clone a PATA internal HD with the extra spot in the 2nd bay of the Optical drive carrier in the MacPro to clone it via External FireWire HD and then reinstall the internal PATA HD back into the G4 Quick Silver ?
I tried Swithing the PATA drive in the G4 but it is too large to be recognized as a main HD.
At the moment the G4 has a 40 GB main drive and a 160 GB (140 GB recognized) as a "Slave".
I need to Clone the 80 GB Slave that used to be in the G4 and install it into the 160 GB and wanted to use the MacPro to do so....is it possible ?

No. The MP is an Intel machine not a PPC machine. You cannot boot a PPC Mac from an Intel system or vice versa, and you cannot boot a PPC installer on an Intel Mac. The Leopard installer DVD will not install a PPC system if you boot in an Intel system.
You have to boot the PPC Mac directly with the Leopard installer disc in order to install OS X in the G4 (or an earlier version of OS X.)
The old G4s did not use SATA drives so they will not install in the MP nor will a drive from the MP install in the G4, so swapping drives is not possible.

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