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10.5: Install OS X to a different volume without rebooting
Authored by: Dr Happy Mac on Sun, Sep 27 2009 at 10:33AM PDT

Sadly, this hint no longer works in 10.6 Snow Leopard. You can still access the installer package in the same way for either 10.4 or 10.5 and the installer will happily run, complete and announce success. However if you are creating a new install on a fresh drive the drive is rendered non bootable.
I don't know if the same applies to an upgrade to an existing OS.