Why do you need to download El Capitan through Terminal.
El Capitan is freely available from this link.
- Download El Capitan from the Mac App Store. Head over to your existing OS X environment running 10.9 or later and open the Mac App Store. Search for 'El Capitan' and click Download. The download is completely free if you're running OS X 10.9+. Wait for the download to finish (this could take some time). Format the USB Drive.
- This free download of El Capitan is a standalone Disk Image InstallESD DMG installer for Macintosh based desktops and servers. Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Overview Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 was released in 2015, the basic purpose of this release is to provide better security, performance, and reliability features.
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Here are the instructions.
ImgBurn for Mac OS X EL Capitan Free Download. ImgBurn is free optical disc authoring software created by the Lightning UK. It is a freeware program that enables burning of files and data on CD and DVDs on Mac directly. It can write on different types of DVDs. Other benefits of this program include the ability to create images from unencrypted.
Go to Section 4 and click on Download OS X El Capitan.
This downloads InstallMacOSX.dmg to your Downloads folder.
The next section can only be done on a mac that is capable of running El Capitan,
a mac that came preinstalled with an OS later than El Capitan will refuse to do the next bit.
El Capitan Iso Image
When downloaded open to InstallMacOSX.pkg, double-click on
that and an installation window will open, this does not install El Capitan
but converts the InstallMacOSX.pkg to the Install OS X El Capitan.app which
you will find in your Applications folder, it should be 6.2GBs in size.
El Capitan Image File Download
(If the installation window asks which disk you want to install to, you must pick
the disk that you are booted to at the time. Not any internal or external disk that
you want to eventually install El Capitan on, that is for later.)
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
an external drive for safe keeping. It is also possible to create a bootable USB installer disk using the Install OS X El Capitan.app
in the Applications folder and the createinstallmedia command in the Terminal app.
Read the instructions here,
Sep 2, 2020 12:18 AM