Install SL on 20GB Firewire ipod and boot Intel Mac?

I have an old 20GB Firewire ipod gathering dust and I was wondering if I could install SL on it and use it for an emergency boot disk to boot a MacBook, perhaps with Disk Utility and another utility or two on it?

Thanks, donv (The Ghost) this is wonderful news. I was hoping the answer would be yes it will work!
One (or 2) further questions.
I do use SuperDuper! Smart Updates to do my backups and I love it.
...you can clone the volume on your external drive to your internal--much easier and much less risky than reinstalling...
So, after I've partitioned the new HD and installed and tested out SL from the external with my most used apps, I could move SL over to the MBP HD using SuperDuper!? But, I won't want to copy the volume containing SL over what's on the MBP, wouldn't it erase everything currently on the MBP.
**There's probably a setting to do this sort of cloning, I just don't know where to find it...can you help with this, please?
**Now I have my MBP backup on another LaCie that I partitioned in Apple Partition Map format (I believe that's the correct term) For installing the OS onto the external I've read that I must make a GUID partition. Can one HD be partitioned with both a GUID partition for SL install and Apple Partition map for the remaining partitions?
Thanks again for your speedy reply and help.
Mrs H

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