How to install OS X on firewire drive?

[freaky]

Can someone tell me how to install OS X onto my Lacie firewire drive? When I click on the Install OS X icon it says it cannot be installed onto this machine? How can I tell it to install it onto the other drive instead?

[jbarley]

Have you partitioned and formatted the firewire drive?
If your mac is an "Intel" you'll need to use the "Guid" partition table to get it boot-able.
Once this is done the drive should mount and be available for installation.

jb.

[freaky]

I just reformatted it using Disk Utility and wrote zeros to it. Any idea why it's not saying I can install OS X onto it when i click on the INstall OS X icon?

EDIT: I just redid the partition to a GUID Partition Table, but it still won't let me install to the drive even after restarting the computer.

[barhar]

The MacOS X installation (restore) disc(s) for the '15" PowerBook (Aluminum)', install Jaguar (MacOS X 10.2.x).

How were you able to install Tiger onto the PowerBooks' internal (boot) hard disk drive?

Are you using a retail copy of Tiger (MacOS X 10.4.x) to install Tiger onto either the PowerBooks' boot drive, and / or the LaCie external hard disk drive?; or, are you attempting to use a Tiger installation restore disc from another PowerBook (or other Macintosh) model?

[freaky]

The machine I'm having problems with is a Mac Pro and the machine I'm trying to install OS X onto the Firewire drive is an Intel iMac. When I last replied I was using a retail Tiger disk that came out when Tiger was released. Then I tried using the Install disk that came with my Mac Pro but it isn't letting me select where to install OS X. It just says restart, then when I restart it tries to install it to the local drive.

Any ideas?

[jbarley]

Formatting zeros isn't enough, this leaves you with a nice clean EMPTY disk, but you still need to PARTITION it and format it with a file system.

jb.

[bobw]

Try using the disc that came with the Intel Imac.