createinstallmedia: command not found
I'm not asking a question but sharing my experience since upgrading to Sonoma and burning my hands every time I take the MacBook Pro out of my backpack. Also when I press the "any key" it no longer wakes up from screen saving mode. Oh yeah, all my LT2P VPN connections into Windows boxes have distorted or pixelated video especially when moving the mouse/touch pad.
I'm going back to Ventura and wanted to make a bootable USB. (I do this once every 5 years and couldn't remember the procedure.) There are plenty of Terminal commands out there to research and I too struggled to get it to work. This is what I ended up doing. I download Ventura from the App Store and it saved to the Applications folder. (Be patient, it's like 12Gb and can take an hour) I renamed the file name, "Install macOS Ventura.app" to just Ventura.app to avoid syntax issues. You can do this in the GUI with a Right Click or in Terminal with the MV command.
Insert your USB and open Terminal. CD into Volumes and do a "ls" (el S) and you need to get the volume name of the USB. In this example, the name was listed as RokhyUSB. Next change into Applications. (cd /Applications) Confirm you're in there with a PWD.
The command I use: sudo Ventura.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/RokhyUSB
Guess what? It worked! This is what you'll see:
Ready to start.
To continue we need to erase the volume at /Volumes/RokhyUSB.
If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return: Y
Erasing disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 100%
Copying essential files...
Copying the macOS RecoveryOS...
Making disk bootable...
Copying to disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 40%... 50%... 60%... 70%... 80%... 90%... 100%
I hope this helps someone.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.3