I'm trying to download mavericks installer from the App Store for a different laptop (which I have no access too ) and the App Store for me says "OS X Mavericks cannot be installed on this computer." as my laptop is the 2017 one, which is annoying as I'm just trying to download the installer. Anyone know a way around this? or another trusted source to download mavericks from?
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Getting Mavericks on newer Macs
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Be aware that you can't BOOT from Mavericks on a new (or newer) Mac.
If you're going to run it, it's going to have to be from "inside a virtual machine".
Some folks have valid reasons for needing to do this.
Also be aware that if you really really want a copy of Mavericks, that you're probably going to have to go to (cough... choke!) "unauthorized downloading sources" by which to get it. I don't have any problems doing this when necessary. As an old road foreman wisely told us once back in my railroad days, "sometimes a man's gotta do... what a man's gotta do!"
If you're going to run it, it's going to have to be from "inside a virtual machine".
Some folks have valid reasons for needing to do this.
Also be aware that if you really really want a copy of Mavericks, that you're probably going to have to go to (cough... choke!) "unauthorized downloading sources" by which to get it. I don't have any problems doing this when necessary. As an old road foreman wisely told us once back in my railroad days, "sometimes a man's gotta do... what a man's gotta do!"
Often it’s the drivers which are missing from the older OS for newer devices. The device didn’t exist when the older OS was new but now it’s old and Apple doesn’t really have a record of retrofitting an older OS with newer drivers.
I am aware of that reason. I meant that if one owns older Mac which wont boot due to corrupt OS fixing it will be tricky if one cannot use newer Mac to create install media...
Which is the reason I have made install medias of different macOS versions to memory sticks in advance.
You need an installer of Mavericks, or existing installation. You can then do an exact clone onto your target machine