Going from 10.3 to 10.5... can i still boot 10.3 from an external drive?

I want to switch from 10.3 to 10.5, but I have some important software and hardware that only works with 10.3. Can I copy my current hard drive information to an external drive, and then essentially boot up my old computer setup from that external drive whenever I need to use 10.3?
How would I go about doing this?
thanks!

System Preferences >> Startup Disk >> choose the one you start from and press restart. Or boot to Startup Manager.
-mj

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