How do I install Leopard on my external FW drive?

Hi, 30 minutes ago I went out and bought a new external FW 750gb drive. I was planning on using the method described in here:http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071025100548752 but you now have to pay for it and I don't want to for one bit of info. How was it done. I want 4 partitions. I want the leopard boot disc on one partition, leopard on another. Time machine on another and a folder for my music backup lastly.
Any help anyone? I don't even know which type of data to have it formatted in. Journaled, extended etc.

The key to the install on an external firewire drive that you want to use with Leopard as a boot drive is this... go to the disk utility and click on the firewire drive in the left column. Go to the Partition tab, click it and under the "Volume Scheme:" click on the button and select the number of partitions you want to set up. Now go to "Options" at the bottom of the menu and click it to discover the trick to this settup: select the first partition scheme "GUID Partition Table" and then click "OK"
Don't forget to name each partition in the first menu and make sure the format is Mac OS Extended (journaled) if you desire the journaling feature. Now click on the "Apply" button and you will now be able to boot the Leopard install disk and select the external firewire drive for the install. I did this and it works great!
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