Hi there! How much of Logic can I Install on an external drive ?

I decided to see how far I could take my beloved eMac G4, 1.25Mz, 2G work horse, so I decided to load it up with as much of Logic9 as poss.
Now I'm also using a 320G external HD, so I was wondering how much of the Logic I could install on it to ease matters on my 80G internal?
Many thanks for any pointers.

If you want to, you can install your OS and ALL of logic on an external drive and boot from it.

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