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No luck installing OSX on wiped '09 iMac.

Trying to reinstall El Capitan on an '09 24" iMac I just cleared, and it's saying no packages were eligible for install. I was running it before the wipe and not sure why it wouldn't work now. Any thoughts?

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jan 18, 2021 9:40 AM

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Jan 18, 2021 11:54 AM in response to PRP_53

That's what I was thinking but rather than do the date change trick which requires multiple steps and reboot I thought it simpler just to download one from Apple which presumably has an updated check. ElCap is freely available. I installed it on two computers last week and had no problems using the download from Apple.

No luck installing OSX on wiped '09 iMac.

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