Install OS X Mavericks on a USB Drive

For years now, people have been installing OS X onto bootable flash drives, and it's easy to see why - they provide an easy way to restore any Mac to it's factory settings without having to wait for a huge multi-gigabyte file to finish downloading.

The process has changed a bit with the release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, but shouldn't be too difficult for anyone willing to go somewhat more in-depth.

[MrCrazybill]

Is it possible to install this on another machine from the USB drive?

[AMPATL]

Congrats Alex, this is the first video I've found that actually says "OS 10", not "OS EX".
Amazing that it's been out for over a decade and still people keep saying 'EX'.!.!.
Thanks for the cool video.

[DonnaBrooks]

There is no website given in the description, as you said would be near the beginning of this tutorial.  I can do a search for InvisibliX, but in the future, could you please not mention that links will be provided when they are not?  Thanks.  You have really great tutorials.  So DiskMaker X does not work with Mavericks?  That's the successor to Lion DiskMaker X, which you used in a previous tutorial.  Their new site says it works for OS X up to Yosemite (beta), so I could use that app to create a Mavericks USB.  The only problem is that I'm still running 10.6, and their FAQ said there used to be problems with the Mavericks USB installation on 10.6, but that they were working on it.

[macjsus]

Alternatively couldn't you just use the Terminal? Like if you have a formatted Flash Drive called "Untitled", you could just type in: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
And it should work.