You can get it working without the quirk through installing on a drive from another Mac and replacing the bootloader manually. It is a bit easier to use the modified installer if you were planning on getting more RAM anyways.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]> wrote: > None of these machines have 12GB of RAM and the RAM they use is DDR2 ECC > REGISTERED, so it is a bit hard to come by. By that, I mean virtually no > one is manufacturing that RAM for a decent price, though you can find it > pretty cheap on Ebay. > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Brandon Bradley <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> You can get El Capitan on these old Mac Pro 1,1s. There is a package >> with scripts that will replace the bootloader in the El Capitan >> installer and load it on a USB stick for you. It also installs a >> daemon that will persist the bootloader on system upgrade. One >> caveat/quirk: you need at least 12GB RAM for the USB installer to work >> on the Mac Pro. >> >> >> http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2006-2007-mac-pro-1-1-2-1-and-os-x-el-capitan.1890435/page-56#post-22335903 >> is a good start. >> >> Cheers to new life to old machines! >> >> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > There remains but one wee, lonely and scared Mac Pro. It yearns for a >> > new >> > home - first one here gets it! >> > >> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:08 AM, CRasH180 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> If was still in Nashville, I would have taken one of these. >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> >> Kevin Eldridge >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected] >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> >> >> --- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> an >> >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
