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I have an older, MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) that I intend to give as a gift.

Temporarily

If you must reinstall a previously-released version of OS X, you need to restore your Mac using the Time Machine backup that you created before you installed the OS X public beta. Restore your Mac. It sounds tho as you may not be logged into your mac with the same apple ID you used for the beta program or you've already exited.

For security reasons, I decided that I was a good to format the drive and reinstall OS X El Capitan.

My first effort was thwarted by an error:

This item is temporarily unavailable.Try again later.

After reading Wiped drive, now can’t reinstall El Capitan from Recovery because the “item is temporarily unavailable”, I supplied a different set of icloud credentials, and the process continued.

Eventually, however, the installation failed with a different message:

This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable El Capitan Reinstall
  • Command-R reinstall of OSX El Capitan on mid-2009 MacBook Pro after a hardrive erase. Repeated installation requests results in this message: “This item is temporarily available. Try again later.” Hopefull this is not forever as this is the highest OS compatible for this MacBook. Any suggestions on when this OSX will be available?
  • Immediately after hearing the Mac boot chime, hold down Command+Option+R – if you see the.

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Quit the installed to restart your computer and try again.

I tried using 'Internet Recovery' (Option+Command+R) and a bootable USB drive that contained El Capitan, both of which ultimately failed with the same message.

Is there a way to get this to work?

To create a bootable USB drive, I needed the Install OS X El Capitan.app package.

Using my MBP 16', I used the Download OS X El Capitan link on Apple's support site to get the installer.

Unfortunately, running the InstallMacOSX.pkg package in the DMG failed:

This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

I 'found' a Install OS X El Capitan.app package and was able to create the bootable media.

I'm out of ideas… Tried every suggestion I could find on the net, but nothing worked. Hoping someone here has a different idea.

The situation

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I'm trying to reinstall OS X (Lion, or higher — which version doesn't matter to me right now) on a Macbook Air, 11-inch, Late 2010 model.

The machine came with OS X Lion pre-installed, and has been upgraded up to El Capitan while I used it.

I recently decided to give the MBA away. Before doing so, I erased the default system/home partition with Disk Utility in Recovery Mode.

I have now been trying to re-install OS X on the MBA, but didn't succeed.

Things I tried already

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  • Turning on the machine, i.e. regular startup: Bootup stops at question mark screen. No surprise, since the system partition has been erased.

  • Turning on with cmd-R, i.e. regular recovery mode. No visible progress for about 30 seconds, i.e. grey screen, then automatically switch to Internet recovery mode. Seems to suggest that there's no recovery partition, or it's not recognized, right?

  • Turning on with cmd-option-R, i.e. using Internet recovery mode directly. Mac OS X Utilities menus load, no problem here. Selecting option 2, 'Reinstall Mac OS X', I am offered to install OS X Lion 10.7 (the original OS the machine was shipped with). Pressing 'ok' is followed by message 'To download and restore Mac OS X, you computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple'. 'ok', followed by progress report 'Loading Installation Information', then dialog to confirm license agreement, then dialog to select installation disk. After that, I am asked to sign into the App Store. This step is not optional in my case, i.e. I cannot skip the app store sign-in. Once I sign in, installation fails with error message: 'This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.'

  • Checking Disk Utility, I see there's no recovery partition. Not 100% sure why, since I didn't erase it, but given that I got the MBA from someone else as well, it is possible that partition was erased earlier.

  • Last thing I tried: Recovery Disk Assistant on my working Macbook Pro to create recovery USB. Using USB on MBA at boot up leads to the regular boot up progress bar going about halfway, then stopping at an error screen (box with an 'X' inside). Perhaps because the computer I used to create the USB runs El Capitan, while MBA came with Lion.

Summary

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Trying to re-install OS X on Macbook Air after erasing default system partition.

Trying To Reinstall Os X El Capitan This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable

Recovery partition missing, so I have to use Internet recovery.

Internet recovery installation fails as follows:

(1) I am forced to sign into app store when reinstalling OS X Lion (weird, since other people suggest app store sign-in is not necessary when reinstalling original OS).

Reinstall Os X El Capitan Error This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable

(2) After signing in, I get the error 'This item is temporarily unavailable.'