Upgraded to OS8 now how to I point to music on an external drive?

I have been running my computer from an external Hard Drive under OS6.  My large itunes library is in the  itunes Media file on the same external  HD
Today, I upgraded to Mountain Lion which I put on the internal HD.  How do I get Itunes  to access my large external drive library?

Limnos wrote:
... How do you run iTunes under OS6?
Right. iTunes requires at least OS 9.
... iTunes 2.0.4 on my PowerBook

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