IPhoto 08  adding pics without importing them?

I purchased a Mac with iPhoto 08 installed. My photos are all stored on an external drive. There is not enough room on the internal drive to just import the library to iPhoto. My question here is how do I point iPhoto to the picture files on the external drive without iphoto bringing them over to the internal drive and using up what little space I have? In itunes I can "add to library" and point it to the music files in the "Music" folder, I have created in the external hard drive and it will add those mp3 files to the library without importing the files. So how can I do that with iPhoto?

You can do that simply enough but you really want to think that through very carefully. It's called using a Referenced Library, and it has a number of pitfalls that you need to be aware of - especially if you want the Library on one volume and the photos stored on another. This thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3062728?tstart=0
has details on how to do it, and some of the possible issues.
My best suggesttion is that you run a Managed Library with the library stored on the External

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