Formating hd for making a disk clone

New to Macs
I have a 500 meg external HD
I would like make 2 partitions.
1. A boot partition to copy an image of my iMac
2. A partition to store other file on.
Please advise me on how to do this

Start by formatting it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Then partition it:
How to partition a Hard Drive:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
Then use either SuperDuper or CCCloner to create a bootable clone of your startup drive.

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