Hard drive complete back up

received an imac g3 from a friend with no hard drive, bought a used one that is empty formatted hfs+. this is for my daughter in her bed room, she will be on the net. i have the same exact model running 10.3.9. i want to copy or clone my hard drive to the new one. the new one is in her computer. i do not have the install discs. they both have fire wire ports. is there any way to copy or back up my drive to her drive through fire wire? any help would be greatly appreciated thank you. feel free to ask any questions.

Connect the two computers with a FireWire cable, start up one Mac with the T key held down, and then use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder or an application such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive.
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