Using Current FW Hard Disk with new Mac Mini..?

I'm using a G4 mini for over a year now, and intent to get an Intel version of it once the next product update occurs.
But is it possible for me to actually use the external FW hard disk which I'm booting my current system from right now, and use it as the bootup HD for my next mini, with all of the files in it remaining intact?
It is just a simple process of upgrading the FW HD with the universal version of OS X and then booting up from it? Or it is a more complicated process of having to format the HD first?
Hope seinors here can advise me on this, tks!
Mac Mini G4 1.42 GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Since the OS X Intel version uses EFI it also uses a different kind of partition scheme, so your F/W disk would not be bootable. You need to repartition it and select GUID partition table in the options (on your PPC machine, the Intel machine would choose the right one) in order to make it bootable for Intel Macs. All your data will be erased by repartitioning the HD!

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