I have an older, MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) that I intend to give as a gift.

Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. The OS X El Capitan splash screen appears. Clean Install of Sierra or El Capitan on a Clean Disk. Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the Command-Option-R keys until a globe appears. The Utility Menu will appear in from 5-20 minutes. Select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Pcsoft891 niresh mac osx mountain lion 10 8 5 iso free. How to install os x mountain lion with pictures wikihow. How to install or reinstall mac os x mountain lion dummies. Download os x mountain lion for mac latest version. How to upgrade to os x el capitan apple support. This item is temporarily unavailable mac apple community. From here, you will be able to reinstall Mountain Lion / Lion. HOW TO FIX This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable! I had this problem in a year but i managed to fix it with the newest OS X El Capitan. Follow my instructions and you will be good to go!

For security reasons, I decided that I was a good to format the drive and reinstall OS X El Capitan.

My first effort was thwarted by an error:

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After reading Wiped drive, now can’t reinstall El Capitan from Recovery because the “item is temporarily unavailable”, I supplied a different set of icloud credentials, and the process continued.

Eventually, however, the installation failed with a different message:

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installed to restart your computer and try again.

I tried using 'Internet Recovery' (Option+Command+R) and a bootable USB drive that contained El Capitan, both of which ultimately failed with the same message.

Is there a way to get this to work?

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To create a bootable USB drive, I needed the Install OS X El Capitan.app package.

Using my MBP 16', I used the Download OS X El Capitan link on Apple's support site to get the installer.

Unfortunately, running the InstallMacOSX.pkg package in the DMG failed:

This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

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I 'found' a Install OS X El Capitan.app package and was able to create the bootable media.