Installing on external HD - Possible?

Hi, I am just starting to learn the Basics of Mac Os x Server, and for now want to install just to mess around and learn the ropes! Is it possible to install it on an firewire External Hard drive similar to OS X? When I tried it told me that it could not install on that volume, and the options button was greyed out.

Hi
This should be possible however I’m not sure what you mean by this:
Is it possible to install it on an firewire External Hard
drive similar to OS X?
Have you formatted the external drive first? Also not all external firewire drives support bootable systems, is your drive one of these?
What about approaching it from the other way? Clone the existing OS onto the external and boot from that to test if its possible and then clean install OSX Server on the internal drive or once you have verified you can clone the existing OS onto the external and successfully boot from it clean install the Server.
Tony

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