On Tuesday November 04 2014 10:53:06 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> > Can you tell me which tool is that?
> 
> There's no tool. You just use the normal OS X installer program to install 
> onto an external disk instead of your internal disk.

Well, for installing to an external disk you don't need special tools, but for 
cloning an existing install it's much easier to use Carbon Copy Cloner.

> But you might not even need that, because ever since OS X 10.7, you already 
> have a recovery partition on your internal disk that you can boot to in case 
> of trouble:

Sure, but that gives a very limited environment. Nothing to do with your usual 
login environment and the tools you might have available there. Even if the 
recovery partition allows you to mount your usual boot disk and run apps from 
it, that very action will make it impossible to do the kind of maintenance that 
requires to unmount the disk.

R.
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