Installing Yosemite on Ext FW Drive Fails

I've been trying to get Yosemite installed on an external FW drive for a couple days now. The drive is formatted properly (GUID) and Mac OS Extended. It's a 1.5TB drive that has three partitions, one of which is intended for Yosemite.
I have Yosemite downloaded to my MBP hard drive and have been installing from there and also tried the installer through the Recovery Disk. Below is a finder shot of the files I get when it's done (certainly not a Yosemite 'System').
I've been installing OS's since OS 7 and have no clue what I am doing wrong?? Any ideas please?? It has to be something to do with the destination drive, but what I don't know.

Yes, just select the external hard drive as the destination when the installer runs.

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Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
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