OS X 10.5 Disk - Disable Auto-open in Finder

[Zathu]

I've got my Leopard disk backed up as a partition on my external, but it comes up in finder every time its mounted. Is there a file I can edit to disable this on the HDD? If not, in the OS itself?

 

[sickmacdoc]

You can disable the display of icons for external disks by unchecking the box in the Finder Preferences general tab that is labeled "External Disks".

Finder-->Finder Preferences-->General-->External Disks

This is an all or one thing- either no external disks will be displayed or all of them will be.

Edit: Of course you can also just leave the external turned off if all you have is the backup on it...