In that case, I would suggest you backup your data, erase the drive, then reinstall from scratch.
OS X No Packages were eligible for install repaired. “No packages were eligible for install” is a message that appears when attempting to install OS X El Capitan on older macs. MacBooks are a very popular purchase in Melbourne and around Australia so it is important to understand the reasoning behind why this message appears. Does anyone know what I can do to reinstall OS X El Capitan? Junkw macrumors 6502a. Jun 25, 2010 527 366 Haifa, Israel. Jan 5, 2020 #2 you booted with cmd-r.
Reinstall El Capitan. Now that the macOS Sierra has been erased from your drive, you will need to re-install the OS X El Capitan. Re-install OS X from OS X utilities and choose the OS X El Capitan Installer.once the process is complete, restart the Mac. Invoke Recovery mode while the Mac is starting up by pressing together the Command + R keys. Very easy way to reinstall Mac if you are thinking about selling your computer or simply need to install a fresh copy OS X El Capitan follow the tutorial to.
Install Yosemite or El Capitan from Scratch
Backup if possible before continuing.
Cannot Reinstall Os X El Capitan Operating System
- Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the Command and Rkeys until the Apple logo appears. When the Utility Menu appears:
- Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on Continue button.
- When Disk Utility loads select the volume (indented entry, usually Macintosh HD) from the Device list.
- Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's main window. A panel will drop down.
- Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
- Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
- Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
- Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Cannot Reinstall Os X El Capitan Installer
Aug 9, 2016 5:35 PM
You probably tried reinstalling your MacBook laptop and encounter this error message “An Error Occurred While Preparing the Installation. Try running this application again.”, because of this you’re not able to reinstall your OS either macOS Sierra, OS X El Capitan, OS X Yosemite or the older version.
This problem occurs because your Mac laptop reset it’s time due to some instances (Your Mac didn’t turn on for several days or battery exhaustion) – so when you tried connecting to apple, the server refuse your request on downloading the OS because your time is out of date.
To fixed this error you have to set the time up to date.
Can't Install El Capitan
How to Fixed An Error Occurred While Preparing the Installation:
- Open Utilities > Terminal
- Then enter the date command to the terminal the format should be date [month][day][hour][minute][year]:
- date 0101104317
- on the above example its January, 1 2017 – 11:04 – you should change this to the current time.
Install Mac Os El Capitan
That’s it everything should work now, try Installing your new OS again and it should proceed without problem.