External HDD

I am trying to install a copy of Mac OS X on a external firewire drive that I have, I have a partition on it that is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) when I put in the install disk that came with the computer and boot into it. Then when I get to the part which I pick the drive to install onto it has a red error for both partitions on my external drive. All it says is that Mac OS X will not beable to start onto this drive.
The partition I wan't to install onto is 20GB so it isn't to small.
The only thing that I could think of that could prevent it was if the restore disk that comes with the computer will only install onto the internal drive. I have a store bought version of Tiger but it was bought right when tiger came out and before they even anounced the intel macs and when put in my computer won't boot from this one.
Any ideas why I can't install onto it?

Is there any way to
change this without loosing all the data by
repartitioning with disk utility? I have drive genius
so I will look in that, I didn't see anything about
that with the diskutil in terminal so I don't think
it can be done that way.
I think you have to have a 3rd party utility to repartition non-destructively. Apparently Drive Genius will do that, but whether you can not only resize but also change the partition type, I don't know. In any event, I think you would want a backup just in case.

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