Tiger install failure on external drive

I need to install Tiger on my LaCie firewire external drive so I can run Tech Tool Pro on the external drive to optimize my internal hard drive. (MicroMat's suggestion, since I don't have enough free memory on my internal drive.) But the installation stalls at 5% of "Installing Basic System" -- every time. No error message. I can Quit the installer, but after choosing the drive to reboot from, it goes into the spinning beach ball. I have read all the Apple support pages, tried checking "erase and intall", I've run disk repair under Disc Utilities on the Install disc (it says the drive is fine.) Can someone please help me out of this quamire??
Thanks!
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Try this. Launch DU, select the ext HD, erase and format it Mac OS Extended. Then, get something like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, etc. and make a bootable clone of your internal HD to the ext HD. Then, select it from SysPrefs->Startup Disk and restart. It should boot into the ext FWHD.

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