El Capitan. no packages were eligible for install.

Hi guys and gals!!


Been having a weird trouble lately. I've got a macbook pro 3.1 that was working alright but I bought a newer one so I took the SSD and did a swap between the 2. Problem is I wiped the hard drive that is now in my old Macbook before selling it and whatever I do I get this error:


Os x could not be installed on you computer. No packages were eligible for install.


What i did so far:

-I rebuilt another usb drive from a new El Capitan freshly downloaded from the App store.

-I formatted the hard drive, again.

-I re tried to install but still the same.

-I then held command+r and tried to install from there but I get the same issue.

-I then found a guide to adjust date and time but it was already correct.

-Reset SMC and PRAM and restarted the whole process.

-I tried to install on an external usb drive but still the same.


At this point I'm out of ideas...

MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Oct 27, 2019 7:09 PM

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Posted on Nov 6, 2019 2:52 AM

Wow. Thanks a lot GolyApple. Setting time to Nov 2016 worked like a charm. Cheers!!!

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