Install SL on LaCie d2 Quadra firewire?

Before beginning a relationship with SL on our MacBook Pro, I was wondering if I can install it onto a new/blank external LaCie Firewire to be sure our printer and the apps we always use will continue to work OK (before going ahead and installing it directly onto the MBP)
I've read here folks saying that some external drives aren't recognized by SL - but what if the external had SL installed on it? Could I use the option key and choose to boot to the external?
And if this idea would work, could I partition the external before doing this so I can use the rest of the external for storage of photos or music or whatever...
Mrs H

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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