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Re: How To Install El Capitan From Sierra?
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Re: How To Install El Capitan From Sierra?


  • Subject: Re: How To Install El Capitan From Sierra?
  • From: Mike Crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:16:45 -0700

> This won’t do you any good but I always save my installers and have for a long
> time.

I do that too but my archives are at home.  I can bring a usb stick tomorrow.

By holding the Option key at boot, I found an El Capitan recovery
volume.  If I click "Reinstall macOS", it logs me into the App Store
but then says "This item is temporarily unavailable.  Try again
later."  I speculate that the El Capitan installer is in a different
place from where it was when first released.

I have archives of all manner of software on a big RAID volume.  I
make a special effort to archive proprietary software because vendors
often delete old versions after they ship new versions.

Mike Crawford, Baritone
email@hidden

      One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light.


On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Charles <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On May 30, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Mike Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I need to run El Capitan to regress a bug.
>>
>> It's still available from the App Store, but when I press the Download
>> button an alert appears that says:
>>
>>   OS X can't be installed on "Sierra" because the version of macOS
>>   is too new.
>>
>> If I could get it to download, I expect I can image it onto a
>> partition to make an installer that I can boot from.
>>
>> I'm trying to determine whether a failed assertion in the kernel is
>> due to a bug in my code, or whether it's in Apple's code.
>>
>> I expect I can download it from a place where bad people go but I
>> don't want any lawyers to chase me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Crawford, Baritone
>> email@hidden
>
> This won’t do you any good but I always save my installers and have for a long time. I have installers going back to 10.6 so that I can do testing on older versions. So once you do get the installer you should save it.
>
> Once you do get the installer you can do this to create bootable media for 10.9 and up.
>
> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
>
> --Richard Charles
>
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