Lacie External Hard Drive Problems

I have recently purchased a Lacie 250 gb external hard drive. I installed Tiger on the external hard drive choosing the Erase and format (Journaled) option. The hard drive does mount on the desktop, and is accessible. However, I am unable to select the hard drive as a startup disk to boot from. The icon doesn't show in the system prefs. When I restart, holding the option key, it will only show the G5 internal drive as the only option. I attempted to re-install the OS X software on the external hard drive, but it will not let me. Any ideas anyone?

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If the drive is hooked up via USB, it won't boot a PowerPC Mac. It will though boot via Firewire assuming the firmware revision from LaCie's website is up to date.

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