Final Cut stuff to External Hard Drive

I took the big plunge today and updated to 10.4.8. As long as I'm at it...
I need to move my Final Cut stuff to my external hard drive as it takes up way to much room internally. Because Final Cut saves things in different files and location in my hard drive - what I have on my external still does things to my internal and continues to take up space.
I have tried several things.
1. Tried to install Final Cut to external - didn't work - decided that I needed a 10.something over in the external for the FC to hold on to - so I...
2. Tried to install 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 to external - external wasn't a location option for any of them.
So how do I get all the Final Cut stuff over on the external?
Diane

That's weird. You have the correct setup. It may be that you have one of the few external FireWire hard drives that do not support OS X booting.
You could try resetting the PRAM.
You could also try resetting the firmware. The procedure is
Start up into Open Firmware by pressing and holding the Command-Option-O-F key combination during startup.
At the Open Firmware prompt, type: reset-nvram
Press Return.
At the Open Firmware prompt, type: reset-all
Press Return.
Neither of these procedures are destructive. So you can try them without worry of damage. They may help but they won't hurt.

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