Neeed help installing Mac Os X on External Drive

i have a 10 gb hard drive, and i can install mac os 9, eaasliy but when i tried to install os X on my external hard drive. i rebot from disc one, then click english, then conmtinue, then aggre, and then it ccomes to the part were i pick where to install, and i only see my computer hard drive, Yet when i go to disk utility, i see the drive, and when i put the pb normaally it mounts without a problem. does the little moveable thing next to the power plug matter?
any help will m,atter

here is some additional info
FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
1394:
Manufacturer: COMBO
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0x50770E0001377A
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
1394 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x12804
Product Revision Level:
Sub-units:
1394 SBP-LUN:
Capacity: 9.56 GB
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
STEVEN:
Capacity: 9.56 GB
Available: 9.55 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
BSD Name: disk2s1
Mount Point: /Volumes/STEVEN 1

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