Re: Installing programs to FireWire drives? (Tiger)

In article <mrdelurk-37147D.02264005102005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Geo <mrdelurk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have almost 4 Terabytes' worth of HD real estate in an external
> FireWire multi-drive enclosure, but no dice - all the FireWire HD
> icons are crossed out in most of the installers, even through the
> drives work fine for day to day work.

Most installers want to install specifically into the Applications
folder, and won't gracefully install anywhere else.

Of course, one way to beat this is to put your entire Applications
folder onto another drive, and then create a Unix symbolic link (think
of it as an alias) of the Applications folder on your main hard drive.

> And with OSX, i can't install a
> program to an internal HD and then drag it to an external, anymore - i
> get embroiled into all kinds of "privileges" warnings and similar
> gibberish, in spite of being the only user of my G5s.

I don't know why you're experiencing this problem; I move applications
between drives all the time without any problems or permissions warning.

You can, if you choose, instruct OS X to ignore permissions on external
drives; have you done this?

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