HELP me with my Big MESS-- external bootable hardrive

Ok so first off, my beloved TiBook has seemingly left me. Actually the hardrive is dead, and many of my files have been backed up onto my Lacie firewire drive (there are about 15 free gb). I have also bought a intel mac mini as another system, and own the panther install discs. Is there anyway without disruptting the info already stored on the external drive, to make a bootable version of OSX? I cant seem to do it on my own..... I boot from the OSX discs and disk utilty can "see" the drive but it never comes up as an option as where to install, also for some reason disk utility wont let me mount my Lacie. I know this whole mess could have been avioded by doing a HD copy beforehand but, hindsight is a muther..... Please advise, I suppose i could just have my hardrive fixed (how difficult is this to do, could i do it myself?), but i was hoping for a "cheaper" temporary solution since i was thinking I already had all of the pieces, please advise.

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Your internal hard drive doesn't show up as a possible place to install Panther if the drive is, as you say, dead. If there has been a hardware failure, you won't be able to solve it except by replacing the drive — an easy 10-minute do-it-yourself job (instructions are in your Powerbook Getting Started user manual).
Replacing the internal drive would enable you to install Panther on the new one and then restore your data to it from the LaCie drive.
Disk Utility should "see" and mount the LaCie drive, and your Panther installer should recognize it as a possible installation site. If neither of those things happens, that's a mystery. Did you originally format the LaCie drive with the Disk Utility that came with Tiger? If you connect it to your MacIntel Mini, does it mount normally on that machine?

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