When you’re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning to reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message:
An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running again
Now, if you haven’t used your Mac for a while, the error might be caused by an incorrect system date setting. You can check this by going to utilities and opening the terminal. Once in the terminal enter the following command and hit return/enter:
- My problem is that my Mac starts up to the 'El Capitan' installer. After restarting several times, OS X is still on screen telling me that 'no packages were eligible for install'. Can someone help please, and can you bear in mind that I’m not technically minded so keep instruction in simple terms.
- The OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if.
- Jun 24, 2020 El Capitan Desktop Guides Yosemite Desktop Support Yosemite Desktop Guides Mavericks Desktop Support Mavericks Desktop Guides. No packages were eligible for install: Target Drive for Install - SATA Drive. Sunilzlog; Feb 15, 2016; Replies 3 Views 5K. Today at 9:21 AM. Old rig, El Capitan working but only USB booting.
- How to fix it:- Hold down Command+R to enter recovery.- Go up to Utilities / Terminal.- Type 'date mmddhhmmyyyy, (month, day, hour, minute, year)' but put 20.
Please watch version 2 of this video here: the 'install failed' and 'No packages were eligible for install'.
The result of this command will be the date that the system currently has been set to. For some reason, it might have been reset to 2001, in which case we need to set it to the right date. To do this, we enter a new command. This command will be entered as follows:
Every bracket should be replaced with a two-digit number based on UTC time. Below you see what the command should be for your current time and date – . To avoid trouble with timezones, we will use UTC time instead (). Which means, you can just enter it exactly like this:
Enter the command and hit return. You can then check if it was set correctly by running the first command again. If the date was wrong, it was likely that which caused the error, and after you quit the terminal it should be able to install OS X just fine.
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