Dan, Have you formatted the drive correctly? I think it should be formatted as a MacOS Extended (Journaled)
Harry Friday, June 5, 20091:30 PMDan [email protected] >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 > _______________________________________________ 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
