![]() ![]() 2019, the clock issue no longer pertains? Any guidance is appreciated. Is the El Capitan download I have good to install over an empty disk or does it need to be installed over Snow Leopard at least? I downloaded El Capitan from Apple, and I also read about a clock issue, but seems that after Oct. Or is there a way to just delete the old iMac disk and have the clean install of 10.11 over the erased disk? Is it an error because I only have Leopard? I backed up his data externally so erasing his disk is an option. Where am I going wrong? Is the fact that it is a partitioned HDD the issue? That's an easy enough fix. ![]() Nothing happened, so it then finished by defaulting to boot to the main drive. Next, I restarted, OPTION, and got to boot screen, chose the bootable HDD labeled Install Mac OS X El Capitan. ![]() I went into Terminal and got it to be bootable. I don't have a USB, so I decided to use a partitioned external HDD. However, I came across the option of a bootable USB. Initially, It appeared I need to purchase (somehow) a Snow Leopard DVD and upgrade to that, then I could use the App Store to upgrade to 10.11 El Capitan. Firstly, I upgraded the RAM from 1Gb to 6Gb. I want to update it to the highest supported OS which is El Capitan. His 2008 iMac A1224 500Gb HDD was no longer functioning with Safari, making it useless. Hello all, I am a noob computer-fixer-upper for my dad for Father's day. ![]()
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