I have an external USB hard drive that I want to install Tiger on. The drive is connected to a MacBook. I insert the Tiger install CD in the MacBook, do the required restart to get to the installer. Both the MacBook's hard drive and the external drive show up in the installer, but the external has a red exclamation point on it. When I try to choose it as the disk to install the operating system on, I get a message that says "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot startup from this volume."
Since what I'm really doing is trying to pre-install the OS on a hard drive that will later be installed as an internal drive in a Mac, I don't care that it can't start up as an external drive, but I still want to install the OS. Does anyone know of a way around this that will let me install the OS even though the external doesn't currently meet OS X's startup-drive standard (for whatever reason)? Thanks. Dan _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be May 26 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
