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Hi folks.
I need to put an OS onto a new drive for my Early 2008 Mac Pro. El Capitan I have running on it, but I can't find an installer that works. I downloaded it, but Apple isn't sending anything to me during the download, so it fails.
Any insight appreciated.
Cheers
Mac Pro
Yes when you double-click on the .pkg file you will see the Installer window open, go through its prompts, at some point it will say this will take up 16.5MBs of disk space (so hardly the install of an Operating System), when it has finished doing its thing, you will get the green tick confirming this small install has taken place. Now look in your Applications folder for Install Mac OS X El Capitan.app. You then use that to install directly to your new disk, or you can make a USB installer as described in the link
I previously posted.
Yes when you double-click on the .pkg file you will see the Installer window open, go through its prompts, at some point it will say this will take up 16.5MBs of disk space (so hardly the install of an Operating System), when it has finished doing its thing, you will get the green tick confirming this small install has taken place. Now look in your Applications folder for Install Mac OS X El Capitan.app. You then use that to install directly to your new disk, or you can make a USB installer as described in the link
I previously posted.
Click on this link, How to upgrade to OS X El Capitan - Apple Support
Go to Section 4 and then click on Download Mac OS X El Capitan.
This will download a file called InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.
When the download has completed, double click on it and a Disk will appear on the
Desktop, open that and double-click on the InstalMacOSX.pkg.
This will open the installation window, proceed and this will make a Install Mac OS X El Capitan.app
in your applications folder. you can double-click on that to start the installation procedure,
you will be asked to select a disk for the installation. Or you can use the instructions here,
How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support to make a bootable USB from the
Install Mac OS X El Capitan.app.
Before you do all that make sure you format your new disk as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) on a
GUID Partition Map.
So you downloaded the .dmg, and you double-clicked on that to get the .pkg file.
When you double-clicked on .pkg file, did it open the Installer window
and when you went through the installer window did it not place the
Install Mac OS X El Capitan.app in your Applications folder.
"OS X can't be installed on this disk. OS X isn't installed."
So no way to get a fresh install on that drive?
BTW, it didn't make any app in my Applications folder. The dmg mounted with InstallMacOSX.pkg, which is the installer itself.
Does the drive have to be freshly formatted? Because I think the previous steps were already attempted.
If it is a brand new drive it needs to be formatted, if you have already done it then there is no need to
do it again.
So the original installer installs the "Install OS X El Capitan" installer? OK that's confusing. I'll try this again.
OK, it warned me that it was already installed on my boot drive. That was the scare. OK, going to try this now.
Yes as I told you earlier as you go through the main El Capitan install windows it will get to a page where you can select the disk you want to install El Capitan to.
Wow it installed 10.11.6. I've not tested the startup though.
Thank you for the notes.
Install El Capitan on New Drive on Early 2008 Mac Pro
