Will Windows install on an external with Leopard?

Hi,
I'm looking to purchase a firewire external hd to put Mac OS X Leopard on, but I want to know whether the external will be considered the 'internal drive' by Boot Camp. Any ideas?

Shame. I wanted to do the same as the OP and even went as far as installing 10.5 on an external drive only to discover that Boot Camp wouldn't let me partition it. I'm still not convinced that the latest version of 10.5 has ironed out all the Creative Suite issues so I'm still running 10.4 on my internal drive. Is there any particular reason why Boot Camp won't partition an external drive and are there any plans in the pipeline to change this?
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