Re: How To Install El Capitan From Sierra?
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 12:29:55 -0700
I found another machine that has 10.11.6 on it. Now the App Store says:
We could not complete your purchase.
This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.
There is a Mavericks volume, maybe it will yield joy.
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 12:20 PM, Chris Cleeland
<email@hidden> wrote:
> If you can find an older machine (e.g., core 2 duo) on which Sierra is not
> supported, it should let you download el cap.
>
> If you have problems getting a copy of the installer, I have a copy at home
> that I could make available for you to download. I don't think there would
> be a legal issue with it because you are legally entitled to a copy of it
> and are legally entitled to download it. I can make it available this
> evening.
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Mike Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > 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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