installer problems

Is there any particular reason that I can't use an SD card to install Ventura with OCLP on a 2017 5K iMac? Why not just use a USB stick? I don't have one handy and there's an ice storm outside. In any case, this seems like an artificial restriction.

What does it mean when the installer said, “The sampled color is not equal to the first color, this isn't an Apple logo boot image” during install?

Yesterday I updated from Monterey to Ventura. Everything looked normal until I wanted to install some .pkg. Every .pkg I tried to install, I got the same error. Has anybody experienced the same problem? I tried everything but was unsuccessful. I'm attaching a picture and a log for more detail.

Hey there, brave Catalina beta testers! I thought I would give Catalina a spin on a 2018 Macbook Air we use for testing stuff: Everything seems to be fine, but then just as the machine is nearly done installing (progress bar around 3/4 complete) it freezes - clue here is that the animation on...

Hello guys, it is the second time it happens to me that when I randomly restart my MBP, suddenly it fails to reboot saying that the installation of MacOS has failed and giving me an error page like the one I'm attaching. I didn't really notice if this is happening after a restart for installing...

I have El Capitan installed. However, I want to download the El Cap installer, make a bootable thumb drive and install it clean on a new SSD. In the App store, I can initiate a download (I *think*??) but have no way of knowing if it's download or not, other than an endlessly spinning progress...