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I have been working on this for a couple of days and have reached the end of my patience so am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.
I think Snow Leopard came with that macbook air, i remember in 2011 i purchased Lion for $19.99 in august for my 2010 edition. You need the usb of snow leopard, which i needed to reinstall a ssd drive this July. The second option is time machine and try the option key after the chime to reinstall through the internet. I had some weird situations installing snow leopard this year, so
just keep on trying.
What macOS version installer(s) do you have, if any? A 2011 MBA will run up to and including High Sierra.
Thanks for the suggestion. I assumed that Lion was the original OS just because when I go into recovery mode that's what it tries to download. I did try the patcher. I do have a good copy of high Sierra. when I tried originally to install that it gave me the circle with the cross hair.
The macbook air with 2gb ram had the red circle after installed a security update on mojave in October, so i reinstalled snow leopard over that from the usb and that worked. Seems to me these macbooks were designed to reinstall from a certain osx that came with the macbook like the 2000’s.
The macbook air with 2gb ram had the red circle after installed a security update on mojave in October, so i reinstalled snow leopard over that from the usb and that worked. Seems to me these macbooks were designed to reinstall from a certain osx that came with the macbook like
the 2000’s. Yeah I am guessing that I need to install Lion before I can do anything else. unfortunately my trusty Install Disk Creator app doesn't seem to work. It always seems to say that it is lacking the file "Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" Or can not be verified to not have Malware.
I needed a usb hub and had to plug that into the power adaptor side of the macbook air.
Well I finally got Lion installed. I tried backing the time and date to 2011, but didn't work. I stumbled upon a YouTube video that led me to a website that had .dmg of older Mac OS. He created a bottle USB stick with Windows and then used a program called TransMac to make the install USB.
Well I finally got Lion installed. I tried backing the time and date to 2011, but didn't work. I stumbled upon a YouTube video that led me to a website that had .dmg of older Mac OS. He created a bottle USB stick with Windows and then used a program called TransMac to make the
install USB. Hi CptKirk
Looking over this link right now
Hi, Hopefully it helps you out.
Finally got this Lion to install !!!
I assumed that Lion was the original OS just because when I go into recovery mode that's what it tries to download. I did try the patcher. I do have a good copy of high Sierra. when I tried originally to install that it gave me the circle with the cross hair. If
you'd never installed 10.12 Sierra before that could be why 10.13 High Sierra didn't work. There have been Boot ROM updates over time. If you want to run High Sierra (or newer) I would update to the oldest OS X you have newer than Lion and install all updates then update to the next newer version etc.
If you'd never installed 10.12 Sierra before that could be why 10.13 High Sierra didn't work. There have been Boot ROM updates over time. If you want to run High Sierra (or newer) I would update to the oldest OS X you have newer than Lion and install all updates then update to the
next newer version etc. Hi
Per Apple:
hi, i have a macbok air 11" late 2010 with 2 gb ram and i did reinstall many times. the best and stable OS so far is El Capitan, i do install at my niece macbook pro 2009 too. I did reinstall or clean install many times
and i learned that back up is eessentia and very helpfull for mac user.
So wasted more hours reading online while trying to upgrade to High Sierra. Try this Google video. This is the same person who posted the video above on how to create a bootable USB with Lion I'm on High Sierra. Thanks guys Why won't my Mac install OS X?Some of the most common reasons macOS can't complete the installation include: The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall. mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Not enough free storage on your Mac.
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