Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:
Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. The OS X El Capitan splash screen appears. How To Install OS X El Capitan on Mac. Download Torrent, open the.dmg 2. Right-click the.app - 'Show Package Contents' 3. Open (mount) InstallESD.dmg, located along the path of 'Install OS X Yosemite.app / Contents / SharedSupport /' 4. From the contents of the OS X Install ESD open (mount) BaseSystem.dmg (default BaseSystem.dmg Basesystem. A: Try an El Capitan install but before go to utilities once booted in the installer and then go in terminal and change the date to mid 2017.
OS X could not be installed on your computer
No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
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Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.
I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at https://support.apple.com/kb/SP728?locale=en_GB and it was listed as supported.
After lots of Googling and investigation, I discovered that the date and time were not set to current, the macbook thought it was year 2000.
You can easily reset the time and date by following the steps below:
- Click Utilities on the menu bar
- Select Terminal
- Type date
- Confirm the date is wrong
- Type date 062112422016 (example: June 21st 12:42 2016)
- Exit terminal
- Click Restart
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Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.
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Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!