G4 Power Mac Boot drive clone

Hi,
I have an old Power Mac G4, which runs with dual hard drives (10gb Boot and 80gb secondary). Recently, though, the 80gb drive died. I got hold of another 80gb and a 40gb, because the 10gb isn't big enough to run 10.5 well. The problem is, though, that I no longer have the install disk for 10.5... Is there any way to get the 40gb to work as a boot drive by cloning the 10gb drive to it? I was going to use Ubuntu's cloning technology (works very well) to try this, but I wasn't sure if it would work as a boot disk, because it doesn't with windows.
I do have a macbook, but I don't like it, it's running really crap.
I CAN'T RUN LOGIC PRO ON MY WINDOWS; AND I'M NOT GETTING A HACKINTOSH
Thanks for any help.

but will a superduper clone work to boot off? And will I be able to clone it while botting off the drive I want to clone?
Of course.
It is all explained on the page that I linked, but......
SD! clones are the most reliable of the popular cloning softwares.
CCC is good, but fails to make a bootable copy from time to time.
CCC also fails to clean up file structure as SD! does.

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