Add support for MAC OS 10.11.6

[bradleyrawleigh]

added support for older macs please?

[Vinz87]

I'm on El Capitan too, on a Macbook Pro Late 2008 which can't be updated. Is there any technical issue preventing it to run on macOS 10.11.6?

[asylumexp]

they have said that high Sierra will be the lowest firmware they are going to support, if your Mac doesn’t support Catalina, Mojave or High Sierra then I would recommend to have a look at the patchers DosDude1 has made. HS Patcher, MOJ Patcher and Catalina Patcher. Make sure to check if your system is compatible but it should be compatible with High Sierra or Mojave if it was last supported on EI Capitan.

[asylumexp]

High Sierra: Requirements:

• Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro (MacPro 3,1 and 4,1, iMac 8,1 and 9,1, MacBook Pro 4,1, 5,1 5,2, 5,3, 5,4, and 5,5)

• Late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook (MacBookAir 2,1, MacBook 5,1)

• Early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook (Macmini 3,1, MacBook 5,2)

• Early-2008 or newer Xserve (Xserve 2,1, Xserve 3,1)

Machines that ARE NOT supported:

• 2006-2007 Mac Pros, iMacs, MacBook Pros, and Mac Minis (MacPro 1,1 and 2,1, iMac 4,1, 5,1, 5,2, 6,1 and 7,1, MacBook Pro 1,1, 2,1, and 3,1, Macmini 1,1 and 2,1)

-- The 2007 iMac 7,1 is compatible if the CPU is upgraded to a Penryn-based Core 2 Duo, such as a T9300.

• 2006-2008 MacBooks (MacBook 1,1, 2,1 3,1 and 4,1)

• 2008 MacBook Air (MacBookAir 1,1)

-- Note: Make sure SIP is disabled on the system you intend to install High Sierra on. If it's not or you're unsure, just boot into your Recovery partition of your currently installed copy of OS X, open Terminal, and run "csrutil disable".

Mojave: Requirements:

• Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro: • MacPro3,1 • MacPro4,1 • iMac8,1 • iMac9,1 • iMac10,x • iMac11,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Known Issues section below.) • iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Known Issues section below.) • MacBookPro4,1 • MacBookPro5,x • MacBookPro6,x • MacBookPro7,1 • MacBookPro8,x

• Late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook: • MacBookAir2,1 • MacBookAir3,x • MacBookAir4,x • MacBook5,1

• Early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook: • Macmini3,1 • Macmini4,1 • Macmini5,x • MacBook5,2 • MacBook6,1 • MacBook7,1

• Early-2008 or newer Xserve: • Xserve2,1 • Xserve3,1

Machines that ARE NOT supported:

• 2006-2007 Mac Pros, iMacs, MacBook Pros, and Mac Minis: • MacPro1,1 • MacPro2,1 • iMac4,1 • iMac5,x • iMac6,1 • iMac7,1 • MacBookPro1,1 • MacBookPro2,x • MacBookPro3,1 • Macmini1,1 • Macmini2,1

— The 2007 iMac 7,1 is compatible if the CPU is upgraded to a Penryn-based Core 2 Duo, such as a T9300.

• 2006-2008 MacBooks: • MacBook1,1 • MacBook2,1 • MacBook3,1 • MacBook4,1

• 2008 MacBook Air (MacBookAir 1,1)

Catalina: Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro: MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1 iMac8,1 iMac9,1 iMac10,x iMac11,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Catalina.) iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Catalina.) MacBookPro4,1 MacBookPro5,x MacBookPro6,x MacBookPro7,x MacBookPro8,x

Late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook: MacBookAir2,1 MacBookAir3,x MacBookAir4,x MacBook5,1

Early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook: Macmini3,1 Macmini4,1 Macmini5,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Catalina.) MacBook5,2 MacBook6,1 MacBook7,1

Early-2008 or newer Xserve: Xserve2,1 Xserve3,1

Machines that ARE NOT supported: 2006-2007 Mac Pros, iMacs, MacBook Pros, and Mac Minis: MacPro1,1 MacPro2,1 iMac4,1 iMac5,x iMac6,1 iMac7,1 MacBookPro1,1 MacBookPro2,1 MacBookPro3,1 Macmini1,1 Macmini2,1

— The 2007 iMac 7,1 is compatible if the CPU is upgraded to a Penryn-based Core 2 Duo, such as a T9300.

2006-2008 MacBooks: MacBook1,1 MacBook2,1 MacBook3,1 MacBook4,1

2008 MacBook Air (MacBookAir 1,1)

[asylumexp]

I would recommend going onto Mojave first to see if your system can run it well. They all have YouTube video tutorials by DosDude1 on how to use them

[asylumexp]

I’m using the patchers on my machine as it got dropped support on HS. They definitely work well.

[asylumexp]

I’ll help anyone out who gets stuck.

[pixelomer]

There isn't a real limitation of El Capitan. High Sierra is the lowest supported right now because it Just Works™ there. Support for lower versions might come later.

[DFNCTSC]

If the methodology is restricted to only certain newer versions of macOS that goes to show how hacky and unreliable of a method this is using.

[asylumexp]

https://github.com/pixelomer/AltDeploy/issues/12#issuecomment-572679029

[amandamana]

Rocking El Cap 10.11.6 on a MacBook Pro 2007 here. I wouldn't move to HS even if I could.

[geordi1]

Support for 10.10.5 please? Yosemite works well on this 2012 macbook pro, I really don't want to update and break things.