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11 Fixing “No packages were eligible for install” in Sierra. The default selection will enable Mac OS X to boot from the hard drive without any assistance,. The latest Mac OS you can run is 10.11 (El Capitan). Trying to install El Capitan but I keep getting a message no packages were eligible for install?

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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.

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A key step for upgrading the disk on a MacBook Pro is to install a new operating system on the new drive, and then use Migration Assistant to copy over the old data. Depending on how you went about the work, installing Mac OS X on the new system may give you a message: OS X could not be installed on your computer. No packages were eligible for install.

This is what it looks like in the installer. Upon seeing this I went 'HUH?' because the installation was from a thumb drive I'd used many times to install Mac OS X (El Capitan) successfully.

The above image came from an attempt to install El Capitan. I just got the following message, macOS could not be installed on your computer, while trying to install macOS High Sierra.

In both cases there was the same cause. In the El Capitan case, as I say in the next paragraph, the hardware clock had reset to zero because it did not have a battery pack. In the High Sierra case, I had performed a hardware reset of the computer in an attempt to fix a bootup problem. I had found advice to disconnect the battery, the power supply, then hold down the power key for a few moments. In both cases the hardware clock had been reset to zero, and macOS refused to boot.

After some yahoogling (duckduckgoing) I came across a simple solution. This particular computer had been running with no battery, and therefore the hardware clock was reset to zero, and Mac OS X had a test against that condition.

We've discussed elsewhere the process to install Mac OS X onto a computer, and transfer information from an old drive. It's during that process when the above message appears. A couple steps prior is where you can take action to correct the problem.

At this step, click on Terminal ...

Mac Os X No Packages Were Eligible For Install El Capitan

Then change the operating system date.

When running this particular Terminal session, you are ROOT meaning you can change anything on the computer. Normally we type 'date' at the command line just to find out the current day/month/year/time. But, the date command can be used to change the time registered in the system clock.

As I said above, for this particular computer the system clock had been reset to zero because the battery pack had been changed. In fact, the computer had run without a battery for many months because the old battery had gone bad.

As you see on the screen, the date had been January 1, 2001. I then changed the system date to the current time as of the writing of this posting.

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To understand the second command, go to a terminal window and type 'man date'.

In the synopsis section you'll see this as an option for the 'date' command:

That's a little obtuse, but further down the manpage is this key:

In other words, the date code for this purpose is month-day-hour-minutes-year ... hence, that's what I entered and it changed the system date to match.

Afterward I closed the Terminal window and was able to successfully install Mac OS X on the computer.