I'm sorry if this is super obvious but, as part of the first step towards updating my El Capitan hackintosh rig to High Sierra (don't want mojave because of Nvidea card), I'll need the High Sierra installer. I actually got it some time ago with the intention of finally going through with the update, only the thing is, it's not the installer.
I have the mojave one and it's a 6GB file, and I know High Sierra should be in the region of ~5GB itself. What I seem to have is a 22MB 'downloader' to use my description. It's one of those infuriating small applications that vendors sometimes have you download which itself initiates a download process. I assume this is going to be an issue since I'm not actually going to be running the installer the way a normal mac user would, I'm in fact going to be creating bootable media out of it to use a hackintosh methods of performing the update. If I run it, it doesn't start downloading anything, and asks me to choose which disk I'm intending to do the install on to. That worries me, because obviously I don't want to start the install process in this manner.
Having looked at a few online update guides, they all seem to create install media from the High Sierra update app and on their machines you can see that their app is around 5GB in size, it even says that's how big it is in the app store link from which I got this 'installer' which was posted on apple's support page. It obviously isn't 5GB since it says 22.7 and it also took just seconds to download.
What do I do?
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