Has anybody installed Ubuntu on External Hard Drive on here?

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 PPC on to an Western Digital External USB 1TB drive to run on a:
eMac G4
1ghz
1GB RAM
I would like to only use like 40GB of the 1TB External. I get to the part where I can Manual edit partition tables and am lost on how to do this.
Is there a Step By Step guide somewhere or can someone help me with what to do at this step?
Thanks

Re: Partitioning
Is there a Step By Step guide somewhere or can someone help me with what to do at this step?
Look at http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
 Cheers, Tom

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