Cannot install additional components needed for Mountain Lion(orig software)
How to do inter recovery w/o prompt “cannot install additional components “
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13
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No Mac running 10.13 can install Mountain Lion directly.
Your only options are if you must have Mountain Lion:
- You must backup your data.
- Make sure your Mac is either between July 15, 2012 and October 2013 in release, and can use command-option-shift-R to use internet recovery and disk utility to wipe the hard drive or a partition that HFS Extended Journalled.
- Or released between July 22, 2011 and July 14, 2012, and you run internet recovery to install Lion, and then use the App Store to install Mountain Lion.
- Or is released between March 15, 2010 and July 22, 2011 and have the original discs to install Snow Leopard, Combo update of 10.6.8 to run the App Store installer for Mountain Lion.
- Or you have Mountain Lion compatibility as is stated on this tip, and have the Snow Leopard 10.6.3 retail installer to install on a Mac older than March 15, 2010
If none of these is true, you won't be able to install Mountain Lion. Most any Mac that is compatible with Mountain Lion, is also compatible with El Captain, Mac OS X 10.11. Unless you have software that requires Mountain Lion, for maximum compatibility 10.11 is the best system to be on for Macs that can't run 10.12 or later.
All these Macs are the minimum to run 10.12 (the x,y is the Machine ID in the system profiler):
MacBook 7,1 Mid 2010
iMac 11,2 Mid-2010
MacBook Pro mid-2010 7,1
Mac Mini Mid 2010 4,1
MacBook Air Late 2010 3,1