Making a Firewire Hard Drive into a bootable Tiger drive

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Making a Firewire Hard Drive into a bootable Tiger drive

Hi everyone,

This might sound incredibly n00bish, but here goes anyways:

I have a MacBook Pro, running 10.5.1. I want to use my LaCie Rugged 160gb hard drive and install Tiger on it. The reasoning behind this is that I want to compare how Logic Studio runs on Tiger vs. Leopard--and to just have another working bootable OS X drive. And, I'm completely stumped as to how to do it. I was at the Genius Bar earlier today, and the Genius suggested I try this. Here's what I've got--a copy of Tiger (that's probably for PPC macs) on DVD, my original MacBook Pro install dvd's, a DVD of Leopard, and of course my LaCie drive.

Again, sorry if this seems like a no-brainer.

thanks a LOT in advance.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 23, 2007 8:03 PM

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Kappy

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Dec 23, 2007 8:32 PM in response to xaipemw

Very easy to do.

Boot the computer using the OS X Installer Disc One that came with your MacBook Pro (it will have an Intel version of Tiger.) After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. After the menubar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

1. After DU loads select your external drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.

2. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) appear in the DU device list.

3. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button.

4. After DU finishes with the Erase (should take only a few seconds) quit DU and return to the installer.

5. Proceed to install OS X on the external drive.

Upon completion of the installation your computer should boot up to the newly installed Tiger from the external drive. You can then download the appropriate Combo Updater to update Tiger to whatever new version you want, and use Software Update to install any other additional updates needed.

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xaipemw Author

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Dec 24, 2007 1:15 AM in response to Kappy

Thanks a lot... that worked perfectly, and as you said, it was very easy. Now I have Leopard on my internal HD, and Tiger on my LaCie. Thanks!

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