General question about OCLP: Can it kill Internet Recovery?

[FFabian]

I want to upgrade my Mac Mini 2012 to Ventura with OCLP. After looking through my USB sticks I found only one with more than 16GB. As I understand it I have to use the USB stick to install OCLP and Ventura to the Mini. As I only have one 16GB stick I won’t be able to create a second “normal non-OCLP” recovery MacOS medium in case something goes wrong.

The 2012 Mac Mini has Internet Recovery. Can I rely on that if something goes wrong with the OCLP install or can the OCLP install process kill internet recovery in a worst-case-scenario too?

 

[dantearmok]

Yes, Internet Recovery still works. Better to have a bootable backup tho (made by something like Carbon Copy Cloner)