MacOS El Capitan from MacOS recovery temporarily unavailable. When will it be available?
I've formatted the hard drive of my dad's 2008 iMac and trying to use MacOS Recovery to reinstall El Capitan. I'm trying to do a clean install rather than using Time Machine to restore. When reinstalling El Capitan from MacOS Recovery, I get the message "This Item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later." each time. How do get my dad's iMac up and running again quickly? I am unable to find a manual download of El Capitan to install from an external hard drive.
El Capitan (MacOS 10.11) is the most recent MacOS that is compatible with this iMac. I have thoroughly reviewed the two apple support articles "How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan" and "How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery".
Can anyone help?