FaunCB
October 23, 2016, 7:49pm
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When you add something to the wiki why does the post disappear from the feed?
FaunCB
October 23, 2016, 8:01pm
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This is a series. When I do others I will post them all towards each other at the bottom of the first post.
So earlier I posted this image. [image]
I managed to get El Capitan on my mac pro 1,1. Not TOO difficult but the major problem is going to be getting some of the things you need... Them being:
Mac Pro (1,1 or 2,1)
8GB USB or bigger
16 GB of RAM
Dual Processors (I am personally recommending this but its not a real requirement)
A Hard Drive (duh)
The 1,1 to 2,1 firmware updater ( https://mega.nz/#!6AcSiIAR my personal mega )
Piker USB tool ( http://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/pikify3-1-v12-zip.661799/ )
El Capitan .app in your applications folder
You need at least 12 GB of ram to make the installer USB. I recommend 16 as, well, why not?
You should update your mac pro 1,1 to the 2,1 firmware before the install just in case. The tool itself has the instructions on how to use it.
So the basic process is 1. Format your 8GB or bigger USB to HFS Extended 2. Put you El Capitan.APP in your applications folder on your mac 3. Open up Pike's tool (I used V12) and open terminal 4. do ./pikecreatebootusb (or whatever the name of the exact script is in the file) /Volume/(yourusbvolumename). You can find this in disk utility. 5. Boot into the usb.
In the folder with the toolkit are some EFI files. These are modified files to make OSX boot on your mac pro 1,1. One has the new design that is a white bg and a black logo, and the other one is the older gray bg gray logo which I like more. The default is gray. You can copy it over if you really want or just ignore it. Its an aesthetic that will matter for all of 20 seconds.
Now install El Capitan.
My personal machine is: Mac Pro 1,1 with 2,1 firmware 16 GB FB-Dimm ram 1tb HDD + 250gb HDD + 64 GB SSD 2 x cd drives XFX R7 370 (El Capitan has drivers built in for the card) An airport card not intended for this machine but works anyways 2 x 2.66 ghz xeon 5150 (soon to be x5355's when I have throw…
I made a bump post and such as I found a bug to the process I had found to put El Capitan on a Mac Pro 1,1. Edited in my fix and put a bump post at the bottom for anyone who had bookmarked tho post (if they had) but it doesn't show up in the feed.
FaunCB
October 23, 2016, 8:05pm
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Huh, ok. Might be my client? It doesn't show on my end. Ok, paranoia avoided then.
