XP Boot over Firewire?

I have a mac mini and i would like to install windows XP on it, but i only have a 80gb hard drive. I have lots of drives floating around my office and i have a Seagate 320gb Sata drive i would like to put in a firewire enclosure. Using Firewire can i install windows xp on the drive and boot the computer from it using bootcamp or some other similar software without harming or really changing my osx setup on the built in 80gb drive?
1.83ghz Mac Mini, Core 2 Duo CPU, 1gb ram, 80gb hard drive, Leopard 10.5.2 factory installed everything is brand new.
Thanks

Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions,
sadly Windows is not capable of being booted from a Firewire HD.
It's a limitation that Microsoft built into it and is not related to Macs.
Only procedure I know of, is this one for booting Windows of an USB HD: http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-dr ive/
You can however, go the other way and install OSX onto the Firewire HD and install Windows onto your internal HD.
Stefan

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