IPhoto pictures on extern HD ?

Right now I have more than 10.000 photos on my labtop - its almost full !
I want to make iPhoto store my photos on an extern media (at least the originals) How do I do this ? By importing, iPhoto automatically creates a copy of the original and a thupnail on the labtop.
So far I use iPhoto 4. but consider upgrading if . . - iPhoto 6 is told to be able to store 250.000 photos !! - OK, but how ! It might be as much as 2000 GB !
Can anybody give me a hint - I will be greatfull.
PowerBookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

panoleon:
Just to warn you that if your free space gets very low you can get into some serious operational trouble. I strongly suggest you free up space so that you have a minimum of 10G. External HDs are reasonable priced and good insurance against losing irreplaceable documents.
With a external HD you can opt to have multiple libraries, older photos in a library on the external HD and the newer ones on your laptop. Then if your laptop starts filling up again you can use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager to copy rolls from your laptop library to the external library and retain keywords, comments, etc. iTLM makes it also so very easy to move between multiple libraries.
Another option would be to put your source files on the external HD and have an alias based library on your boot drive. I have an alias library for 18,000+ photos (32G) on my external that takes up only 1.7G on my boot drive. You can read my Tutorials about alias based libraries to see if might work for you.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

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