Error:

If you want to reinstall the Monterey system on the M1 chip Mac, you repeatedly encounter the error ‘pkdownloader error 8’

Solution:

Download the installation package manually: InstallAssistant.pkg

1. After entering [option], menu bar -> Utilities -> Terminal

2、cd /Volumes/Macintosh HD

3、mkdir private/tmp

4, cp -R /Install/macOS monterey.app private/tmp (here is able to tab out, if the tab does not come out, it means the path is written wrong)

5、cd private/tmp

6、mkdir Contents/SharedSupport

7、curl -L -o Contents/SharedSupport/SharedSupport.dmg https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/39/60/002-23774-A_KNETE2LDIN/ 4ll6ahj3st7jhqfzzjt1bjp1nhwl4p4zx7/InstallAssistant.pkg

8, and then wait for the download to complete, the process may also fail to download, it does not matter more than a few times on the good, my first time to about 80% error ‘error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_…’ Then I re-downloaded it once, and it worked!

9. After downloading, cd /Volumes/Macintosh HD/private/tmp

10, . /Contents/MacOS/InstallAssistant_springboard to execute the installation process, then follow the instructions in the graphical interface step by step