My coworker was able to dig up an archive of installers. I used the createinstallmedia command in the El Capitan installer, but Startup Disk didn't show the install drive as a potential boot volume. I was able to get into the installer drive by holding the Option key at boot, then selecting "Install Mac OS X" from the Recovery volume menu.
Mike Crawford, Baritone mdcrawf...@gmail.com One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Quincey Morris <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > On May 30, 2017, at 12:32 , Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> you can […] select [bootable media from older installers] as your start up >> disk from within macOS Sierra > > Not if this Mac is newer than the older macOS. (Think about hardware-level > drivers.) > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com