Install OS X on external drive
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Purpose
To install, then run a full OS X installation from an external devices, such as a USB disk.
Details
At the time of this writing OS X (Maverick 10.9.5), is not distributed on physical medium anymore. Free, as in beer, upgrades are done via the App Store, and the installer takes care of migrating and upgrading the shiny box to an even more shiny desktop.
However, wether you want to experiment with the OS, prepare disk images to replicate and distribute in a portable way (ie, so as to populate pre configured OS X installs for large installations), or simply needs to upgrade your current disk starting with a clean install, you can use the OS X Installer to put the OS on virtually anything connected to your machine.