Need help setting up external hardrive to play itunes on 2nd Mac

I have my main music collection on my Mac Pro (400 gigs). I want to be able to use my Mac Mini downstairs to play my itunes collection. I have attempted the following steps without success:
Using my Mac Pro, I formatted a 2TB Seagate drive into two partitions (one to use as timemachine back up for the Mac Mini) the other to copy my itunes collection to.
I copied my entire itunes folder onto that Seagate hardrive partition which I named :"Mac mini Itunes"
plugged in seagate hardrive to the mac mini
Opened itunes using the hold option button to choose the iTunes library on the external hardrive
When I chose the iTunes folder located in that "mac mini iTunes" hard drive icon on my desktop, I get the following message:
"The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have permission for this file"
When I go to the Sharing and Permissions info on that "mac mini Itunes" hard drive icon, it shows "You can only read"
Below that I see that the Name and privilege info is grayed out and I can not change anything.
The Ignore ownership on this volume is checked but grayed out and I can not change it.
Any suggestions on how I can use this hardrive to play my iTunes collection on my mac mini?
Do I need to reformat the Seagate drive and do something different while partitioning the drive?
Should I reformat it using the mac mini instead of the Mac Pro and then copy my iTunes folder to it?
Thanks for any help

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o Verify Password: <re-enter desired password>
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o Enable AirTunes (checked)
o iTunes Speaker Name: <enter desired speaker name>
o iTunes Speaker Password: (optional)
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