I want to partition my drive. help?

hey all
i'm thinking about partitioning my drive. i want to do it because i am a pro tools user and i want to install 2 different versions of pro tools on my computer to test any newer releases on one and work with a more stable version on the other. in order to do this i will have to install tiger on both partitions. i'm planning on using carbon copy cloner to make a complete back up of my drive. i want to be able to put my hard drive i have now on one partition and then just tiger and one version of pro tools and a few other apps on the other.
can anyone reccomend a good way of doing this? how much room does tiger take up? i need to know how much i would have to dedicate to each partition and also have to consider the fact that i am putting my whole older drive onto on of the partitions.
also, i have a 160 gig media drive in my G5. i was wondering if formatting my boot drive would affect this?
any help would be great. thanks.
cheers

A basic installation of Tiger takes about 7.5GB. I would allow 10GB plus room for Pro Tools and its files. I don't use Pro Tools, so I don't know how much more room you would need. Just add 10GB to what ProTools and its files require and you should be OK. I assume you have used Disk Utility to partition a drive. It is just about self-explanatory.
I have had good success cloning volumes with CCC and also SuperDuper, but they are not absolutely perfect. You may find a few minor glitches, but I have never had any major problems.
Formatting your boot drive would have no affect on your media drive.
G5 1.8/A , iMac600, 9600/G4, Older Macs/OS 7-9 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 3GB RAM, 2 x Raptor 74, 4 x 300GB Maxtor ext SATA, FW800 & 400 drives

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