Can't install on FireWire drive?

I have a Firewire drive with 48 GB available attached to my MacBook Pro running )S 10/5/7
I have the Tiger disks that came with the MacBook, as well as the upgrade (to Lepoard) DVD.
When I try to install Tiger on the FireWire disk, I get a message: "You cannot install OS X on this disk. OS X cannot start up from this disk".
Below is the System Profiler report on the Firewire disk... Why can I not install onto it?
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Unknown Device:
Manufacturer: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.
Model: Unknown
GUID: 0x30E00000000B7E
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
Unknown Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x0
Product Revision Level:
Sub-units:
Unknown SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 111.79 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk1
Mac OS 9 Drivers: Yes
Partition Map Type: APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Oxford Drive:
Capacity: 111.66 GB
Available: 48.09 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s10
Mount Point: /Volumes/Oxford Drive

Niel wrote:
Apple Partition Map
Mac OS X can't be installed onto a drive using this partition map type on an Intel Mac, but it can be cloned to it and the Intel Mac can boot from it. A Mac OS X 10.5 installation can also be done on a PowerPC Mac and the drive moved.
(50960)
I've cloned my drive, then attemped to boot up from it, everything loads in fine, but it asks for my name & password, and will not accept my password! This is extremely frustrating, and I've done everything I can think of to sync the two drives, even hand copying the keychain folder from my computer to the external, but it still won't work!

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