Where does it say the drive has to be 12 GB? I thought 8 GB was all that was required.
Apple said:Mount the USB flash drive, external hard drive, secondary internal partition, or other storage media that will contain the install media. Make sure that it has at least 12GB of available storage space.
Interesting, cuz all the online instructions from third parties say 8 GB.It comes from Apples official support page on making a bootable installer for macOS.
Where does it say the drive has to be 12 GB? I thought 8 GB was all that was required.
However, the final install is almost 12 GB. My clean install on my 2010 iMac is 11.3 GB.