Creating a Bootable Image on my iMac G5 (Power PC) - Please read.

Greetings,
My wife and I have stored quite a bit of data on our iMac - including our recently developed wedding photos and our iTunes. That being said, we think it's time we take the plunge and get an external drive.
To that end, we ordered the G-Tech 250GB Firewire Drive which should be coming in the mail any day now.
My question is this, before we make the bootable image, can I partition the drive into 160GB for iMAC and then a second partition to backup photos, addresses, iTunes, odds and ends? In other words, can the bootable image (SuperDuper) be run off a partition like a normal harddrive or does the whole drive (one partition) have to dedicated to the bootable image?
Any advice would be super helpful. Thanks.

Hello !
Sure you can... More, you can do all this with disq utility !
Here's a little "how to" :
1st connect your external HD to your Mac (USB or FIREWIRE)
Open 'disq utility' and click on 'partition'
Set 'Volume Scheme' to '2 Partitions'
Click on the first part below this window, and give it a name (Ghost HD for example ^_^), select a format (I recommand you 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)') and for the size... 160 Go.
Then click on the second part and re-do the same thing as for the first one (Storage HD for example, Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and for the size no prob it's what it remains on your HD).
After doing all this click on partition and let the mac works.
Well, now you have two hard drive on your desktop, (Ghost HD & Storage HD).
Now click on 'Restore' (in Disq utility), then drag and drop your Macintosh HD in the lign 'Source :' and do the same with your Ghost HD but put it in the lign 'Destination :'.
Click on 'Restore' button and let the Mac works.
This time, the operation will be a quite longer than the partition of the disq... about 30 minutes at least i think !
I recommand you to do anything with the Mac until it has finished this operation.
Then, your HD must be connected with the FIREWIRE cable ( ---* It's the only way to boot on external HD with a PowerPC based Mac *--- ), Then you have two choices :
_Open 'System Preferences' select 'startup disk' and 'Ghost HD' and click on 'restart'...
_Or reboot your Mac and keep-pressing 'alt' (or option), select your external drive and click on the arrow.
So, my advise is that you could look the space that need your system without your songs, photos and movies... Let's say it's about 60 Go, so take 20 Go more and make your 1st partition with 80 Go... Like that you have more space for storage. and you keep in your Ghost HD a light, good and stable system...
I let you think about that : in your opinion, what is more important A big system disq or A big storage disk?
And please save your wedding photo on DVD too.
Sorry for my poor english... (hope this could help you... a terrible headache is coming
Au revoir.

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