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OSX Tiger, external drive

post #1 of 13
2/26/06 at 1:42pm
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I have an external drive for laptop(I book) that I wanted to load tiger on using disc from laptop but was unable to do so. Is this because its illegal and Apple prevents this on the disc's ? Its a larger drive than current internal and i thought I could install large software files on it. Any help would be appreciated. Do I have to buy a fresh copy of Tiger to do so ?
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post #2 of 13
2/26/06 at 1:55pm
afaik u should b able to install to external from restore disks. the bigger question is whether or not the disk is HFS+ formatted or not?
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post #3 of 13
2/26/06 at 8:57pm
What exactly happens when you try to install OS X on the drive?

Not all external drives can be used as boot drives and the installer should tell you whether or not you can boot with the drive or not.
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post #4 of 13
2/26/06 at 9:24pm
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The drive does allow files to be copied, so it appears to be working .its a usb connection ,its was formatted with OSX utility. When installing the restore disks just get a black screen and lockup and have to force quit with start button. Didn't know about posible drive not being bootable. So this is likely a drive problem and not restore disc issue ?
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post #5 of 13
2/27/06 at 3:19am
Where does the install go to a black screen?

You can also try installing without rebooting. Insert the Install disk and navigate to System\Installation\Packages then open OSInstall.mpkg and follow the instructions.
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post #6 of 13
2/27/06 at 3:39am
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Originally Posted by macman17011
its a usb connection ,its was formatted with OSX utility.
ah, well there u go, can't boot off of USB w/ the Macs, only firewire.
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post #7 of 13
2/27/06 at 10:21am
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Triadone and Kazaze ,you guys are fantastic...you are the "genius bar"of the net. Guess I need a new firewire drive. Here's an issue on the Ibook i now have since i tried to boot that external drive. When the Ibook is booting ,before the Mac osx logo starts i see what looks to be a file folder(center of screen) with a ? in it then goes away as logo appears. Is there any way to get rid of it ? Only there since this boot thing. Thanks for your help and tips. "You Da Man"
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post #8 of 13
2/27/06 at 6:03pm
i believe that's from having the USB drive attached during booting.
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post #9 of 13
2/28/06 at 1:51am
I thought the last few versions of OS X supported USB boot drives now, or is it just the Intel Macs?
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post #10 of 13
2/28/06 at 1:53am
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Originally Posted by macman17011
Triadone and Kazaze ,you guys are fantastic...you are the "genius bar"of the net. Guess I need a new firewire drive. Here's an issue on the Ibook i now have since i tried to boot that external drive. When the Ibook is booting ,before the Mac osx logo starts i see what looks to be a file folder(center of screen) with a ? in it then goes away as logo appears. Is there any way to get rid of it ? Only there since this boot thing. Thanks for your help and tips. "You Da Man"

Go to System Preferences>Startup Disk and make sure the iBook's harddrive is set as the main start disk and that should get rid of the folder.
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post #11 of 13
2/28/06 at 4:10am
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
I thought the last few versions of OS X supported USB boot drives now, or is it just the Intel Macs?
yeh, i think the new intel macs are supposed to make use of the USB booting, tho i haven't read any reviews of the feature.
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post #12 of 13
3/1/06 at 8:36am
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"Go to System Preferences>Startup Disk and make sure the iBook's harddrive is set as the main start disk and that should get rid of the folder."

Worked perfectly ! Thanks again for your wisdom, Kakaze
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post #13 of 13
3/1/06 at 3:33pm
Welcome
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