How to create a bootable drive for 10.5.8 Leopard?

I wonder if I can use the DVDs following the machine with the Old system of Leopard in order to create a boot drive when my system now is updated to 10.5.8?
Not sure where those recovery disks / system disks are.
Can I createa a boot disc or drive for 10.5.8 without the installation disks?
Or can I create a boot disc from the existing system files on my mac?

Simen Myrberget wrote:
Ok. Just to be sure, my Macintosh Hd now contains 180GB of data and the total size is 240GB. So Superduper will "understand" based on my settings? that Superduper is only suppose to make a boot of the system and utilites not the entire 180 GB of information?
No, I'm afraid not. It will clone everything.
I forgot that you don't have the DVDs. This is how you'd get a system only boot drive.
Simen Myrberget wrote:
I can make this with a partation size on another drive of about 40GB?
If you had a way of getting a fresh install I know from experience that a 20GB partition would work, (maybe smaller).
Best way is get an ext HD of at least 240GB ideally. Clone it, (and boot from it to check it works). Boot back into your regular drive and do the update on that. Is this clone your only backup strategy?

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