Installing 10.8 on secondary disk?

I am running 10.6, and want to try out 10.8 to see how my stuff transfers. I've bought 10.8 from Apple Store, ran it, and chose a blank secondary disk to install it on. It only took a few seconds, and now it wants to reboot. I want to make sure it doesn't touch my main 10.6 volume, and to try importing all my data/apps/settings from it onto the new clean 10.8 volume. What do I need to do - do I really "click Restat to install OS X" like it wants me to? Do I need to first reboot off the new 10.8 volume and run migration assistant or can I somehow install and migrate everything onto the 10.8 while still in 10.6, and then boot off the 10.8 later to see how everything works?

If you have the installer on your internal hard drive, before doing the install it would be eaiser to download a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper and then clone the internal drive to the external drive. Restart holding the Option key and then choose the external drive to boot from. After you boot, run the !0.8 installer so the build occurs on the external drive. When it finishes installing and restarts again, hold the Option key so you can complete the boot process on the external drive. That way you will have your applicaitons over there also and can test things.
How is that easier than just doing what he started out to do?
Install it on the empty drive, let it restart, and then just use Setup Assistant to migrate his stuff from the internal drive.

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