[vcf-midatlantic] OT: need help with 2011 MacBook

[Andrew Diller]

I use this to make USB bootable drives from images:

https://diskmakerx.com/whats-this/ <https://diskmakerx.com/whats-this/>

Nowadays Apple gets tricky and it may claim to not be able to install. When you have booted the installer run the terminal from the installer, set the date back to somewhere in 2018 and it will install fine.

-andy



> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:06 PM, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> Don has it.  Macs have a 'reinstall' bootup option that let you install
> MacOS over the internet.  See
> https://elluminetpress.com/2020/03/reinstall-macos/
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 3:51 PM Don Barber via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
>> You tried Shift-Option-Command-R during startup? There should be a rom
>> built in to reinstall on that model.
>> 
>> Don
>> 
>> On 3/23/23 15:12, Bob Shuster via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>> I’m not sure where else to turn, so hoping one of you folks can maybe
>> help. I have an Apple MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.8 13" Late 2011 with a new
>> blank HDD. This apparently shipped with MacOS 10.7.2 (Lion) but can run up
>> to 10.13 (High Sierra I believe.) Modern MacOS makes it impossible for me
>> to create a bootable flash drive or DVD for some reason and I only have
>> install disks that go up to MacOS 10.5. Long story short - I need a
>> bootable 10.7.2 DVD or USB drive (up to 10.13 but I’d prefer to restore it
>> to original OS), or original install/recovery disks for this machine, or
>> definitive instructions on how to create one here on a modern Mac. I used
>> to be able to do this easily, but now Disk Utility chokes on the process.
>> Thoughts?  _ Bob Shuster
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Shevett
> shevett at pobox.com