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Ok so I got myself an External Iomega 250GB hard drive. I have done Carbon Copy from my Internal Intel Macmini hard drive.

But what I wanted to do was put a new, clean install or an archive & install on the External Hdd.

When I put the Tiger Install disc in I am given the 2 drives to choose from, Internal & external, but when I choose the external I get an error message ‘Cannot boot from this drive’.
I am using the external hdd now but only because I Carbon Copied it.

So my question is – How do I put a clean install on the 250Gb external Hdd?
I am using Firewire 400. My Macmini is the INTEL Core Duo with 2Mb of memory

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You'll need to wipe that disk if you want to use it as a boot drive.

Fire up Disk Utility (in ~/Applications/Utilities. or boot from the Tiger DVD, Command-Q out of the installer and select Disk Utility from on of the menu bar drop-downs.).
Select the drive (232Gb Iomega blah blah), Partition, Options, select GUID Partition Table, then Partition.

You'll now be able to use it to boot your intel Mini :)

Just boot again from the Tiger DVD.
 
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