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How do you install tiger on a firewire partition
I purchased an iMac 24″ 2.8 extreme with 4 gigs of ram for Final Cut Studio 2.
I purchased a OWC 750gig firewire drive and I partitioned it to install tiger on one partition and use the other as a media drive. I partitioned it correctly. However, when I try to install the tiger installation disk, it request that I restart my iMac and it dosen’t give me the option to install it on my firewire drive partition. It tries to install it on the boot drive of the iMac, which cannot be done.
Can anyone please help me with this problem?
Thanks.
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Uh…why are you doing this? Never capture footage to the SAME PHYSICAL DRIVE that the OS is installed on. Partitioning doesn’t help.
Why are you installing a new OS on an external drive? Why can’t you just use the OS that is installed on your computers hard drive, then use the WHOLE firewire drive as your media drive? This is typically how it is done.
Shane
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Thanks Shane. But I have software like After Effects and other programs that won’t run on Leopard on my internal boot drive that shipped with my computer. So I was told to partition my firewire drive and install tiger on one partition and use the other partition for my media.
Are you telling me this won’t work?
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Well, you can install Tiger on the external drive. I have a drive that I installed Tiger on to have as a boot drive in case anything ever happened to my system..and it has. All you need to do is boot from the install disk, and when you get to the main OS install screen, go to the TOOLS menu, and format your drive. And you can choose that drive as the target for install. Partitioning would be pointless…it is still the same physical drive. But you can use it for After effects just fine. No RT playback needed. But FCP, that is another story.
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[Mark Jackson] “I partitioned it correctly.”
Possibly NOT. Apple has started doing something a little new, that I doubt many people know about. On the latest revisions of several of their computers, in able to boot from an external it must use a GUID partition map as opposed to the older and still more common Apple Partition Map. An Apple Partition Map can be used on all PPC, and most Intels (except the newest releases), a GUID Partition Map I believe can be used on any Intel Mac.
Also you may not be able to install Tiger on that computer (and if you do most likely it will not run properly.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25497
Also a explanation I posted earlier on the cow about the same thing.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/961957
I hope this helps
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I agree with Shane and I would look for other solution.
However, if you need to install FCS2 in an external disc, the first thing you need to do is to install MacOX in that disc.
You can not run FCS2 as a standalone application from an external HD. The installer can only allow you to install in a disc with thefull System.But the most important question is the one that “ZRB” points:
[zrb123] “Apple has started doing something a little new, that I doubt many people know about. On the latest revisions of several of their computers, in able to boot from an external it must use a GUID partition ma”
That is depending of the computer CPU that will run the software.
If you want a disc to boots a PPC , OR TO BE USED LIKE A NON-STARTUP DISC, you need to use the “Apple partition map”. To make a bootable disc for Inte lMac you need a GUID Partition Table.
You want to use your disc for two things that need two different kind of formating.
The truth is that this is new and many people haven’t noticed that yet. By default the Disc Utility format with the system that is using. So an INTEL will format with the GUID an a PPC with Apple PM, unless you change this.
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