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I have Mac 10.11.6 (OS X El Capitan), but when i try to download the installable for macOS Big Sur I get a message 'It cannot be installed on this computer' even though the page says that it should work on version 10.9 and higher. Nov 29, 2017 If you are wondering if you can run El Capitan on an older Mac, rejoice as it’s possible too. But before your Mac can run El Capitan it has to be updated to OS X 10.6.8. So, here are main steps you should take: 1. Install Snow Leopard from install DVD. Update to 10.6.8 using Software Update. Download El Capitan here.
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1- Requirements
In this document, I will guide you how to install Mac OS 10.11 on VMWare. First of all, you must ensure that your computer have been install VMWare. VMWare version 12 is highly recommend.
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2- Download Mac OS X 10.11
Download Mac OS X 10.11 (Backup Link)
3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware
You need to unlock Mac OS for VMWare before creating a virtual operating system Mac OS on VMWare. To do this, you need a software. Download Unlocker 2.0.8 at:
Note: You need to register an account to download, register an account is free.
4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS
Open VMWare, and click 'Create a New Virtual Machine'.
Create an empty folder to create Mac OS virtual machine. For example, 'F:VMwareOS X 10.11'.
Visual Machine is created.
You need to configure the hardware.
If you want to install Mac OS to iOS programming, you need to have a space of 4GB RAM for virtual machine.
Remove the hard drive of virtual machine to create a new hard drive which points to Mac OS file that you have downloaded earlier.
Click to add a new hard drive.
Select the location of Mac OS 10.11 image file, that you have downloaded previously.
It is not necessary to expand the drive, with Mac OS, 40GB is enough to install iOS programming tools. Here I expand to 100GB.
Disconnect the CD whenever you power the virtual machine.
it is very important to configure virtual machine. Open file 'OS X 10.11.vmx':
Add:
OK now you can run virtual machine Mac OS:
5- Install VMWare Tools
Os X El Capitan 10.11.6
VMWare Tool is a tool that allows you to manipulate between 2 Windows that you are running and Mac OS that you are running on VMWare, such as copy & paste the files, ...
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Point to the darwin.iso files in thetools of unlocker that you downloaded earlier.