Can maverick be installed on external harddrive?

I have a 2008 iMac and want to install Maverick on a partition of an external harddrive. Can this be done?

Of course. You just need to format the external drive with a GUID partition map and with "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as Format. See > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
Then, run the OS X Mavericks installer and choose the external drive to install OS X Mavericks

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Hi sorry to bother you, I'm having difficulty installing Mavericks as a bootable external harddrive. I've downloaded Mavericks off the App Store (which taken 4 hours) and have tried using the createinstallmedia method but I'm having no joy
I've been following a Youtube tutorial and everytime I run the below command through terminal when I get to the part where its "Making disk bootable…" I get this message - Couldn't mount dmg /volumes/install os x mavericks/install os x mavericks.app/contents/sharedsupport/installesd.dmg (error code 5)mount of outer dmg failed.
I have no idea what this means I'v tried googling it and there isn't much on the subject apart from one forum where one guy had to re download Mavericks again which I've done already and still get the same error message. If anyone knows where I am going wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
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MacBooks-MacBook-Pro:~ macbookprouser$ sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/installMavericks --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
Password:
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Copy complete.
Making disk bootable...
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Done.

Thanks "clintonfrombirmingham" for the quick reply! Yea I think I am going to have to use either the Disk Utility method or like what you suggested the DiskMaker option. I was just interested in the reason as to why it wasn't working for me using the bootable USB installation disk method.

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I try to export my slideshow in iphoto, but get a "OSS-mistake". It is a large slideshow, but I cannot find the size of it, how do I do that? How can I export to an external harddrive?

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Can an external harddrive be plugged into an Apple TV and play movies?
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Logic 9 can't be installed on external disk not running OS X - huh?

Would really appreciate some help...
Did a basic install of Logic Pro 9 on my MacBook but didn't install additional content as my MacBook doesn't have sufficient space and I just wanted to get started.
Now I have tried to install the additional content (loops etc.) on my Time Capsule (which isn't even recognised) or my external drive (connected via USB).
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"Logic Studio can't be installed on this disk. You can only install this software on the disk that is running Mac OS X" ????
I didn't realise external drives ran OSX? My MacBook doesn't have space for all of the content.
Please help me install this additional content to either my Time Capsule or external drive
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bill borez wrote:
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Is there an ORGANIZER for my photos which I can separately store on an external hard drive?
? portable photo organizer

ayanda2014 a écrit:
Okay, this is it. I only need the organizer and catalogue (as a kind of archive) separately. I do not want to work with and shop the pictures. Just want to store and find the pics.
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Can't open project on External Harddrive

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Good luck!
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