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 "Insta
On May 30, 2017, at 12:32 , Richard Charles wrote:
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> 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.)
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> On May 30, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Quincey Morris
> wrote:
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> One other thing to keep in mind is that you can’t install a version that’s
> older than the one that came with the Mac you’re trying to install it on.
> Newer Macs don’t run older OSes.
That is true but in macOS Sierra you can still
On May 30, 2017, at 12:07 , Richard Charles wrote:
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> Once you do get the installer you can do this to create bootable media for
> 10.9 and up.
One other thing to keep in mind is that you can’t install a version that’s
older than the one that came with the Mac you’re trying to install it on.
> This won’t do you any good but I always save my installers and have for a long
> time.
I do that too but my archives are at home. I can bring a usb stick tomorrow.
By holding the Option key at boot, I found an El Capitan recovery
volume. If I click "Reinstall macOS", it logs me into the App S
> On May 30, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Mike Crawford wrote:
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> I need to run El Capitan to regress a bug.
>
> It's still available from the App Store, but when I press the Download
> button an alert appears that says:
>
> OS X can't be installed on "Sierra" because the version of macOS
> is too
