That's a kernel panic, and is often associated with bad hardware (bad logic board, bad RAM). If one of these is the issue with your MBP, that would probably account for your being unable to install an OS on that machine.
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This version of OS X can not be installed on this computer bypass?
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Yes. I may buy a MacBook air and be done with it. My last resort:. Just went into terminal with external drive connected to new borrowers MacBook. Did the command to copy el captain installer to the external drive. It said to continueit needs to erase drive. I did that and it copied to the external HD. I am not sure what to do now?
Btw. I think I remember something about kernal panic attack before this all started.
Following these steps. http://mashable.com/2015/10/01/clean-install-os-x-el-capitan/#0VROumFxDEqn
[doublepost=1471621486][/doublepost]Installing El Captain now from external. Fingers crossed. 6 minutes remaining. Praying it does not crash
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Stuck on "about a second remaining" now. I hit Command L and it set to show errors only . Keeps going through same error. Says "Unicode range NSCFCharacterset" followed by character string that keeps changing followed by "name= NotoSansHanunoo"
[doublepost=1471622757][/doublepost]It rebooted and on screen is apple logo and it says "installing: about 24 minutes remaining". Is that normal?
[doublepost=1471623479][/doublepost]It booted to the OSX installer screen now. Asked me to select drive. I selected the internal. Now says "installing on Macintosh HD". 16 minutes remaining.
[doublepost=1471623615][/doublepost]OSX could not be installed on your computer. N error occurred while extracting files from the package "essentials.pkg". Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again
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Took out one of ram modules. Saw this corrected the problem for someon essentials.pkg error.
[doublepost=1471628064][/doublepost]Taking out one if the ram modules worked actually and I was able to install El Captain!!!! I ran disk utility on the drive after to make sure it was good and it found no errors.
[doublepost=1471628064][/doublepost]Taking out one if the ram modules worked actually and I was able to install El Captain!!!! I ran disk utility on the drive after to make sure it was good and it found no errors.
It may be worth a try swapping the RAM modules, which would help if it's a bad RAM module. (If its your logic board, though, this wouldn't help.)
From what I can recall for those models (I've got a 2008 MBP, but haven't done this in a while), you just put the disk in and restart, holding (and this is the part you'll need to check) the D key on startup. I think the instructions for booting into the hardware test are printed on the disc itself. (Could be Command+D too, that's the bit I don't remember.)