When you install El Capitan on your current startup drive with the clean install method, you erase everything on the drive. That includes OS X, your user data, and personal files. I copied the CodeSignature folder from inside Install OS X Mountain Lion.app to the same position inside Install OS X El Capitan.app on the Flash drive.
How to Install System Software on:
El Capitan OS X 10.11
Sierra OS X 10.12
Also works on…
High Sierra OS X 10.13
Mojave OS X 10.14
Download OS X El Capitan. In your Mac/existing Hackintosh/virtual machine running Mac OS X, open the Mac App Store app and download the latest version of OS X El Capitan. This is a 8 GB download, so it's probably going to take a while. Once the Mac App Store app finishes downloading OS X El Capitan, an update window will pop up. Install Mac OS X El Capitan in Windows: The process is covered from scratch under different parts.Part 1 Mac OS X El Capitan Installation Part 2 Installing Bootloader and Keyboard Support Part 3 Changing Display Resolution of Virtual OS. Sep 01, 2020 To start the installation of El Capitan double click on the Install OS X El Capitan.app. The copy of the install app self deletes after installing El Capitan, so make sure you keep a copy of the InstallMacOSX.dmg. If you need it in future, or you could just make a copy of the Install OS X El Capitan.app prior to installing and moving it to. Feb 24, 2021 apple, osx, el capitan. This is the Install DMG of OS X El Capitan, downloaded from Apple's website just before this upload. This is for archiving purposes, just in case Apple decides to remove the download, so people can still download this in the future.
But, Catalina OS X 10.15 is rather hit and miss
and BigSur OS X 11 seems no go at all.
El Capitan os x 10.11 for Mac is like Win10 for Windows – Neither are LightScribe friendly.
It’s the fact that the problem stems from the fact that HP stopped developing the software back in March 2013 – nearly 3 years now long before El Capitan was released! They (the wise guys at Mac HQ) have done something different this time, as Yosemite OS X 10.10 was fine…
However, folks much smarter than I am have found the cause of the problem and have sent me the solution…
My thanks go to, Stefan Ilchenko and Jo Vandeweghe – Thanks guys… 🙂
However please understand I am not a Mac expert so I offer this to you to try but can’t offer any direct support on its implementation…
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The Problem With El Capitan OS X 10.11 and Sierra OS X 10.12
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The cause is the SIP (system integrity protection) enabled.
The Solution…
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To disable follow these steps:
- Boot to Recovery OS by restarting your machine and holding down the Command and R keys at startup.
- Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
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- Enter the following command: csrutil disable
- Reboot your computer.
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- Download newest Lightscribe Host software; expand the .tar file on the desktop
- Install Pacifist 3.5.7 version and install the lightscribe.pkg file with Pacifist.
- Then you can, with the terminal command “csrutil enable”, as action describe above, enable the SIP again.
Et voilà, the LACIE lightscribe software and Disc Cover 3, come back to recognize the Lightscribe drive.
I hope this works for you as it has for many other long-suffering El Capitan and Sierra users…
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Let’s help as many LightScribe users to keep on Scribing… 🙂
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