[muglo] External startup drive

My granddaughter has filled the hard drive on her Mac and thinks she
wants to use an external firewire drive as her startup drive.  Can you
explain to me how to do this for her?

Some bits of advice I have had in the past:
(1) make sure the System folder is in the first 8 Gigabytes of the drive
(2) "Bless" the System folder by dragging some key folder into it.

I suspect that the above information may be out of date.

I tried to "drag" the System folder to the external drive.  It
was copied, mostly, but I got the message that some files did
not get transferred.  I used an admin account to do it.
The "Startup Disk" program found in the System Preferences
did not recognize the external drive as a possible
startup disk.  What do I need to do to get this right?

Lee Dickey

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