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Scenario

PLEASE DONATE TO MY CHANNEL IF THIS HELPS:) hope this video helps everyone, but to the few. How to fix OS X Installer Failure 'No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance' Posted by Scott on Friday, November 2. That would be truly mysterious, as a G5 can't possibly boot to OS X 10.6.7 (nor can any other PPC Mac.) OS X 10.5.8 is newest OS possible on a PowerMac G5. I am guessing that you could mean 10.2.7, or 10.3.7 - as that would be the result of reinstalling from original PowerMac G5 installer disks. Are you reinstalling Apple Mac OS X in your old laptop but getting error 'OS X could not be installed on your computer' and message appear 'No packages were.

I got the task to install a fresh OS X (El Capitan) to friend in an iMac 2007 and it's a surprise how can be done. Before I start I assume that you want a fresh installation so make a backup of your information in an external device (or the cloud with dropbox) before start. Some Macs from 2009 and up have the option of 'Command + R' method, but in this case we assume that it does not work.
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Requirements

  1. You have a 'OS X El Capitan.dmg' downloaded. (look for them in torrent.)
  2. You have a USB drive (USB flash drive) of at least 8 GB of capacity.
  3. All this process will happen in a OS X environment. (No Windows please.)

Happy path

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  1. Create an install boot drive using the USB drive and the 'OS X El Capitan.dmg'.
  2. Boot to recovery mode in the USB drive and wipe the hard drive (ALL DATA IN HARD DRIVE WILL BE LOST, DO BACKUP!!!)
  3. Install 'OS X El Capitan' and have a beer!
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Step 1

  1. Double click on 'OS X El Capitan.dmg' to mount this in 'Finder'. Once mount and open, it should show a name like this 'OS X El Capitan'. Copy this to your 'Documents' folder (Command + C and Command + V, or simply grab the icon and drop it in the 'Documents').
  2. Insert the USB drive to your computer and rename it like 'INSTALL'.
  3. Open the terminal and do this command:

    sudo Documents/OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/INSTALL --applicationpath Documents/OS X El Capitan.app
  4. This command will ask you for your password in order to proceed. It will ask you to confirm with 'Y' for the actions that will happen in the USB drive. Once it start it should take from 15 to 30 minutes or until it finishes coping all installation files to the USB drive and making it able to boot.

Step 2

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  1. Restart your computer and once you hear the sound that is starting press and keep press for a while 'Option (Alt)' key until it shows a menu for select different drives. Select the one that says something like 'OS X 10.11 install drive', and click in the below arrow.
  2. Wait until it boots up a screen of different options. Now click on the top bar on the screen that says 'Utilities', and then 'Disk Utility...'. Once open this menu, select the first 'Internal' drive (at the left), and then click on 'Erase' and on the confirmation dialog enter in the highlighted input name 'Macintosh' and then click 'Erase'. Wait until it finish doing this process. Now go to the top bar in the screen and click on 'Disk Utility' and the 'Quit Disk Utility'.
  3. Now it should take you to the same screen when it boot up.

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Step 3

  1. We are ready to install but this step is the most critical one because of different errors that can happen so lets do it in way that whatever error happen we can keep trying to install.
  2. Click on the top bar on the screen that says 'Utilities', and then 'Terminal ...'. Once the terminal is open do this command:
    installer -verbose -pkg /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg -target /Volumes/Macintosh
  3. The installation happens in text mode, so be patient until it finishes. At this time 2 types of error might happen:
    A. 'This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.'
    B. 'OS X could not be installed on your computer. No package were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. Restart'
    Both errors have the same solution and is very easy (and very crazy). So whenever one of this errors happens the installation stops. So we need to change the date of the computer to a year when 'OS X El Capitan' were released (don't ask me why), just type something like this:
    date 101407002015
    or     date 101407002016
    after that type command
    date
    to check that the date is in 2015 or in the second case 2016.
    and then try again the installer command in step 2 in the terminal (installer -verbose etc...) and wait until the installation finishes (if the hard drive is not a SSD it will take some time, just wait until no more ### symbols).
  4. Now click on the top bar on the screen on the apple symbol and restart the computer. Once you hear the sound that is starting DISCONNECT THE USB DRIVE and have your beer in your hand to configure your fresh Mac or iMac.
Posted:
in macOSedited January 2014
From Mac Fix It:
[quote]Convert your Update CD to a full Install CD In the meantime, we found a work-around that may be even better than the one we were looking for. Instead of finding a file on the hard drive that we could modify to fool the Installer, we found a file on the Installer that we could delete and thereby bypass the checking process altogether!
We found the file by comparing a Mac OS X 10.1 'full' Install CD with an Update CD. Both CDs had the aforementioned VolumeCheck file. However, only the Update CD had the CheckforOSX file. Could this be the only critical difference between the two CDs? What if we made a bootable copy of the OS X Update CD, but with the CheckforOSX file missing? Would it act as a full install CD? We tried it. It worked! In brief, here is what to do:
Using instructions posted on this page, create a disk image of the Update CD.
Delete the CheckforOSX file from the Essentials.pkg file in System/Installation/Packages folder of the image file. [You need to use the Open Package Contents contextual menu item to access this file.]
Burn the image to a CD using Disk Copy.
You can now boot from this CD. When you do, it will list any volume - even one that has no version of Mac OS X at all - as eligible for an install of Mac OS X 10.1. We did not test to see if this actually correctly installed the OS, but we have no reason to believe it would not. This method thus apparently converts an Update CD into a full install CD! A neat trick (although we suspect Apple may not find this so wonderful). <hr></blockquote>
[ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: Fran441 ]</p>

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  • Yeap I sucessfully made a 'full' install CD which is very cool <img src='graemlins/smokin.gif' border='0' alt='[Chilling]' />
    So next time if I really have to reinstall the OS I don't need to do double install
  • WOW! thanks I am going to do this. Not to get a free copy of OS X (I boght mine) but just to avoid a boring dubble install like I did today
    BTW is there a way to do this with the OS 9.2 CD?
    Thanks
    <a href='http://homepage.mac.com/mikesicons/Menu3.html'; target='_blank'></a>
    [ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: Michaelm8000 ]</p>
  • [quote]Originally posted by Michaelm8000:
    <strong>WOW! thanks I am going to do this. Not to get a free copy of OS X (I boght mine) but just to avoid a boring dubble install like I did today
    </strong><hr></blockquote>
    That's DOUBLE install. Not dubble install
  • This is a great tip for those of us that have purchased both 10.0 and 10.1 Cd's (or got the 10.1 CD for free) but I can understand why Apple is pissed. This turns a $130 + upgrade OS in to a $20 OS. Apple is going to need to re-release the 10.1 CD as a non-full version and ensure that it is only an upgrade. Although since the OS is basically a loss leader anyway and Apple's profits come out of hardware, maybe it's not realy that big a deal.
  • Plus, you have to imagine all of the disks they gave out for FREE at the Apple Retail Stores.
  • I copy and pasted this from MacNN forums... but things move so damn fast there, that its already on 2nd page with no reply
    The MacNN thread, with a ton of other advice, is here: <a href='http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=001275&p=1'; target='_blank'>' target='_blank'>http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=001275&p=1</a>;
    PROBLEMS:
    I have 10.1.1 installed already and have the 10.1 updater cd. I used it to update my system to 10.1 in the frst lace, so I know it works.
    I just tried making a 10.1 Full install cd, and while creating a .dmg file with Disk Copy, at the end I got this error ( 'disk3s1' failed to image due to error 5. Input/output error )
    I looked at the CD and its perfect except a small scratch on the outer part of the CD which Im pretty sure was already there after getting the updater cd in the mail.
    I attempted to create a read/wrtite image. No go
    I then tried with Toast. I use Toast Preview 2 for OS X and you can just add or remove files from the window before burning. So, I just told it to copy the update CD and not include the 'volumecheck' file. I started burining the image, and while it was caching, it said there was an error because the 'master.passwd' file found in private / etc folder could not be modified.
    I tried copying the file from the cd onto the desktop and I got the following error: The item 'master.passwd' contains one or more items that you cannot read. Do you want to copy the items you can read?
    when I click continue, I get the error that I do not have sufficeint priveldges for some of the items. And thats it.
    I have not tried to burn the image by excluding this file seeing Im pretty sure it will not work.
    If I drag the CD onto Toast to try and save it as an image file, it all goes well (verifies correctly) until it starts to copy data to the HD Cache. It says that it could not continue becuase 'file 'master.passwd' could not be accessed (Data Fork, -5000).
    I am logged in as admin... will I have to log in as root? How do I do that? Something with NetInfo or something, right?
    Thanks
    ZO
  • [quote]Originally posted by Fran441:
    <strong>Plus, you have to imagine all of the disks they gave out for FREE at the Apple Retail Stores.</strong><hr></blockquote>
    I needed to show proof of purchase before I got an upgrade CD. Nontheless, I wish this 'tip' hadn't received as much attention as it has.
  • by the way, Apple has sent a 'cease and dissist' letter to MacFixIt to remove this information from their forums. So, copy it somewhere because it could happen here too...
  • [quote]Originally posted by Fran441:
    <strong>From Mac Fix It:
    Using instructions posted on this page, create a disk image of the Update CD
    </strong><hr></blockquote>
    I was about to do this. We are missing some info here. What's the link for the this page?
  • I copied the core information and mailed it to myself so I have it handy. Here is what I have:
    [quote]http://www.macfixit.com/archivesx/november.01.b.x.shtml#11-20-01
    <a href='http://www.macosxhints.com/'; target='_blank'>' target='_blank'>http://www.macosxhints.com/</a>;
    <a href='http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=001275'; target='_blank'>' target='_blank'>http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=001275</a>;
    the update cd is a full install cd with one little file that prompts another
    to search for a pre-install on X, this file is in:
    system / installation / packages / essentials.package / contents / resources
    / volumecheck
    this is the 2k file; don't worry about the 'checkforosx' file, it's rendered
    useless once you remove the volumecheck file. you can now install 10.1 onto
    any partition, maybe even without a 9.1 system folder, i dont know about
    this one.
    anyway, the way i burnt it was to make a read/write copy of the update CD
    with diskcopy, then just remove the file from the mounted image, and select
    the mounted image in toast and burn, slowly. make sure you verify it, as i
    had to burn this a few times for some reason, maybe due to speed i dont
    know.
    <hr></blockquote>
    I have also read many variations on the theme, that you can just burn with DiskCopy, etc etc.
    Somewhere at MacFIxit and Macnn there are also instructions to make your own bootable OS X cd The problems with making it boiled down to the fact that you have to have a user directory.... I dont know the details, but anyway, people managed to make bootable OS X cds... cool.