Is it possible to install OS X 10.4 on an external harddrive?

I was thinking about doing an install of tiger on an external USB harddrive because I'm afraid that if i Drop My iBook i lose my Mac completely and i want to know if it is possible and half way easy to get it on a USB drive- The drive is made by Western Digital and it has 160GB (unformatted) space - any help would be greatly apprecated

ramez,
this has nothing to do with speed, it's just MacOS X's inability to boot from an external USB device: Don't start up from an external USB device

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