

Please consider to replace with the username you are using on your Mac. The first lines above let you go to your personal desktop folder. Extract the mpkg file by using the command line pkgutil So i found a workaround to extract the mpkg package with the pkgutil command line tool.Ĭopy your Packages/ osinstall.mpkg from your bootable usb drive to your desktop.Ĥ.2. So you need access to X-Code which is not available under OS-X 10.6.8 directly from the app store. The problem of often presented ways are, that you need a software called " flat package editor" which is available as a part of "X-Code". Therefore we have to got rid of the installers hardware dependency check. But you will notice the installers message that the current hardware is not supported. When you try to boot at this point the installer from the usb drive, it should be able to boot up. Modify OSInstall.mpkg to disable the hardware check of the installer You have to download the "boot.zip" file from the forum above and replace the boot.efi (which is content of the zip file) with the boot.efi files located on your bootable usb drive at:Ĥ. Enable boot possibility for 32bit EFI biosĪs mentioned by tiamo in this forum there exists an EFI 64bit to 32bit wrapper.

The mentioned way using the command line tool, does not work for me. I used the tutorial bootable installation usb drive. The install package resides in the application folder.Ģ. At this point you can cancel the installation. This first downloads the installer (~5.4GB) and afterwards give you the first installation slide. After giving an Apple-ID (which do not requires a credit card id) you should start the installation. After reboot you should be able to click install. Extracting this zip file and running the executable with admin privileges disables the hardware check for the mavericks download in the app store. You can find it at the following place Mavericks_download_enabler. A possible solution is to run the download enabler tool. But we want to download the installer anyways. Download the OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks installerĪs you may noticed, the apple app store denies the installation of the OS X upgrade caused by the lack of hardware compatibility. Thank you for up voting! So i was able to add the missing links.ġ.
