#Apple snow leopard to el capitan mac os x#
#Apple snow leopard to el capitan mac os#
#Apple snow leopard to el capitan install#

I ran the El Capitan upgrade last night that installed successfully on the notebook.

#Apple snow leopard to el capitan mac os#

my decision to reset it to factory settings. 11 EL Capitan (10 a Mac user might feel that mouse is traveling way to slow when reaching distant parts of the screen, and its harder to do fine targeting in a small area If you are planning on doing a new installation of Mac OS X, though, do it before installing Debian For instance, if your MacBook was released in 2014, don’t expect it to. It ran pretty slowly and the original OSX CD wasn’t supplied with the notebook which hampered. The installers the OP was trying to use were obviously for 10.6.2 or earlier. I recently bought a second hand A1304 Macbook Air which had Snow Leopard. However, this prevented the OP from installing Snow Leopard because the firmware update itself requires as a minimum Snow Leopard (10.6.3).

#Apple snow leopard to el capitan install#

Because of the OP's music requirements I had no doubt he would have installed this update (and in fact Apple recommended that all users install it). the i5 and i7 versions) had a firmware update. These were options for the 27' model only and both variants (i.e. The key bit of information that was missing in the original question was that the OP's iMac was one of the quad core models.

Don't forget, Snow Leopard is the last of its ilk in terms of running Rosetta based programs and any you have and are working with will be lost if you go any higher. Check that your machine has the memory and facilities first. (Download El Capitan from Apple’s site.) El Capitan seems to be the last release that can migrate files from Snow Leopard. Open Contents and then Shared Support and copy the InstallESD.dmg file to the Desktop.

#Apple snow leopard to el capitan mac os x#

The OP then needed to go back to Snow Leopard and despite having both a Snow Leopard installation disc and a bootable USB installer, he was unable to install Snow Leopard. 2:18 PM in response to fkblanco You might just as well upgrade to El Capitan. Install Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan on an external drive. Go to Applications/Install OS X El Capitan and Control+Click to show the context menu and select Show Package Contents. x) and found this was incompatible with his music hardware and software. In the OP's case he has a late 2009 iMac which previously had Snow Leopard (10.6.

Hopefully this will help someone else in a similar situation. I am adding this as an 'answer' to provide more context as to what solved the OP's issue (and to save others from reading through the comments history).