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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. Most of the Mac models can install and run OS X El Capitan, but in some devices, you can't use full features of this OS due to hardware limitations. For instance, you can't use AirDrop on your Mac if you don't have a WiFi network compatible with PAN.

1- Requirements

This is how to install Mac OS X 10.11 'El Capitan' on an unsupported Mac Pro. In this video, I use a Mac Pro 1,1 (that has been flashed to 2,1 firmware).

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

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, ...
And now you need to install it.

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Point to the darwin.iso files in thetools of unlocker that you downloaded earlier.

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Install Os X El Capitan

To get the latest features and maintain the security, stability, compatibility, and performance of your Mac, it's important to keep your software up to date. Apple recommends that you always use the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac.

Learn how to upgrade to macOS Big Sur, the latest version of macOS.

Check compatibility

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The version of macOS that came with your Mac is the earliest version it can use. For example, if your Mac came with macOS Big Sur, it will not accept installation of macOS Catalina or earlier.

If a macOS can't be used on your Mac, the App Store or installer will let you know. For example, it might say that it's not compatible with this device or is too old to be opened on this version of macOS. To confirm compatibility before downloading, check the minimum hardware requirements:

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macOS Catalina 10.15 hardware requirements
macOS Mojave 10.14 hardware requirements
macOS High Sierra 10.13 hardware requirements
macOS Sierra 10.12 hardware requirements
OS X El Capitan 10.11 hardware requirements
OS X Yosemite 10.10 hardware requirements

Download macOS using Safari on your Mac

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Safari uses these links to find the old installers in the App Store. After downloading from the App Store, the installer opens automatically.

macOS Catalina 10.15 can upgrade Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
macOS Mojave 10.14 can upgrade High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
macOS High Sierra 10.13 can upgrade Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion

Safari downloads the following older installers as a disk image named InstallOS.dmg or InstallMacOSX.dmg. Open the disk image, then open the .pkg installer inside the disk image. It installs an app named Install [Version Name]. Open that app from your Applications folder to begin installing the operating system.

macOS Sierra 10.12 can upgrade El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion
OS X El Capitan 10.11 can upgrade Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
OS X Yosemite 10.10can upgrade Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard