Os X El Capitan Not Installing

Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:

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In other words, these instructions describe the process for installing, reinstalling, or upgrading OS X El Capitan. You must have Internet access to complete this procedure. If you’ve never had El Capitan on this Mac, the first thing to do is visit the Mac App Store, download El Capitan (it’s free), and install it. When that message appears, go under disk utilities, click 'terminal,' and once that pops up, type 'date' and hit enter. The date will probably appear as incorrect (mine was set at the year 2000). Type date again and then type in the correct date in the format MMDDHHYYYY (month, day, hour, year) and hit enter. Then try installing again.

OS X could not be installed on your computer

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at https://support.apple.com/kb/SP728?locale=en_GB and it was listed as supported.

After lots of Googling and investigation, I discovered that the date and time were not set to current, the macbook thought it was year 2000.

You can easily reset the time and date by following the steps below:

Click Utilities on the menu bar
Select Terminal
Type date
Confirm the date is wrong
Type date 062112422016 (example: June 21st 12:42 2016)
Exit terminal
Click Restart

Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.

Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!

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1- Requirements

In this document, I will guide you how to install Mac OS 10.11 on VMWare. First of all, you must ensure that your computer have been install VMWare. VMWare version 12 is highly recommend.

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2- Download Mac OS X 10.11

Download Mac OS X 10.11 (Backup Link)

3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware

You need to unlock Mac OS for VMWare before creating a virtual operating system Mac OS on VMWare. To do this, you need a software. Download Unlocker 2.0.8 at:

Note: You need to register an account to download, register an account is free.

4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS

Open VMWare, and click 'Create a New Virtual Machine'.

Create an empty folder to create Mac OS virtual machine. For example, 'F:VMwareOS X 10.11'.

Visual Machine is created.

You need to configure the hardware.

If you want to install Mac OS to iOS programming, you need to have a space of 4GB RAM for virtual machine.

Remove the hard drive of virtual machine to create a new hard drive which points to Mac OS file that you have downloaded earlier.

Click to add a new hard drive.

Select the location of Mac OS 10.11 image file, that you have downloaded previously.