The copy of OS X that is included with your Mac is not considered a retail purchase, so unfortunately you will be able to access it only through Apple's installer.

The other day a co-worker needed to borrow a Mac, so I grabbed an older MacBook Air from storage. I decided to wipe out the laptop’s flash storage and install a fresh version of OS X. I created ...

The root directory "macOS Install Data" is deliberately hidden because it contains a prepared installation for the drive its on, and is not transferrable (at least without great effort).

Zenoss on Wednesday announced the addition of a native Mac OS X installer to Zenoss Core 2.3, an open-source IT monitoring tool. Zenos Core helps system administrators and network managers ...

If you would like to preview which files are within an OS X installation package, the OS X installer contains an option to do so. Topher Kessler June 13, 2012 3:05 p.m. PT 3 min read ...