Factory Reset Gone Wrong?

[majortom42003]

I recently purchased an old Mid 2009 MacBook Pro from a friend, This is my first MacBook and Apple related device in general. He told me I would need to factory reset it so I looked up how to do so, I proceeded to erase the disk with Disk utility, but after doing that I cannot reinstall the OS X at all (El Capitan), every time I try it just says "this item is temporarily unavailable". I'm basically stuck in the OS X utilities menu.

I have no clue at all what to do and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with this so any help would be gladly appreciated.

 

[tcprado]

This is the Mac Pro (tower) forum, but...

It's likely that you need to set the date/time to current manually before you can install.
Check this link: https://www.filiotech.com/blog/support/change-date-recovery-mode/

 

[Apple_Robert]

This is ground control to Major Tom. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me?

Did your friend give you the Snow Leopard install DVD disks that came with the Mac?

 

[Fishrrman]

Could you tell us HOW you are trying to install?
Did you create a bootable USB flashdrive?
Something else?

Just to be sure, you know that a 2009 Mac cannot do "internet recovery"... right?