Initializing external firewire harddrive in Mac OS 10.2

I recently bought a Lacie firewire external hard drive. The instructions say to use apple's disk utilities to initialize the drive in Mac OS Extended. How can I access the disk utilities in OS 10.2? I've done this before with other drives, but I can't remember where to find the disk utilities now. I've run a search, but can't locate the disk utilities on my computer.
Thanks for your help!

Double-click on your hard disk's icon in the Finder; next, open the Applications folder followed by Utilities. The Disk Utility application should be located here. If it isn't, use Pacifist to extract it from the Mac OS X 10.28 combo updater.
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