OS x on USB External Drive

[Wulfgen]

I've just bought a SeaGate 500GB (Free Agent) USB 2.0 external drive, formatted it using Disk Utility and am trying to load Tiger on it. However, it's giving me a message telling me that it can't install the OS on the drive (red exclamation mark)

Is it because the drive is on the end of the USB cable and it's considered as a master? or do I need to open the box and set the ID to slave? or is it because it just does'nt like this type of drive. Do I need to open the box and install the drive as in internal to the tower?

Am I missing something here - I'm using an installer disk from a previously bought version of Tiger in a package.... any ideas?

 

[drlex]

I believe that since you can't boot from an USB external disk, you can't install OS X to one using the standard Installer.
I can find reference to a hack to allow non-Apple Intel computers to install OS X on external USB drives, so there may well be a boot hack too. Detailed discussion can be found on the relevant site; some google-fu required.

soi la, soi carré

 

[SYQUEST]

I believe Firewire would be a better choice for OS 10 with an external drive.

For issues on installing OS 10 on other than internal drives, you might want to check out macfixit.com they have had several tutorials on this subject in depth and very complete!

....JIM....