Installing a new HDD

Okay I have a 80Gb Firewire HDD and internal 80Gb HDD, the plan is to use CCC to backup the current 30Gb HDD to the FW one and make it bootable. Then swap out the 30 for the 80, Hook up the FW external HDD and copy back to the new internal 80gb HDD.
First is this a good idea, remeber I'll have the 30Gb HDD untouch waiting if there are any problem.
But I need to know how do I boot to the FW external HDD if I have a blank internal HDD, do I just boot from the installer CD and select the FW drive and re-boot to that?
The iBook is running 10.3.9.

With the FireWire drive connected to your computer and Mac OS X installed on it, restart with the Option key held down, select the external drive in the list of disks, and then push the button with the straight arrow. Doing this won't change the computer's default startup disk, which can be done from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
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