The full operating system is a free download for anyone who has purchased Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion or has a Mac preloaded with OS X Mavericks or Yosemite. Follow these steps: Direct Update to OS X El Capitan using Clover. If you have followed updates until OS X Yosemite using Chimera, check out Clover Basics and Switching Advice.Įxisting Clover users may do a direct update to OS X El Capitan by simply running the Install OS X El Capitan app as normal Mac users would. To start from scratch, booting the 10.6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD directly, check out iBoot + MultiBeast.įor the first time is recommending Clover as your default bootloader. This is a requirement, as you need access to the Mac App Store to download OS X and create the installation drive. In order to start fresh, you'll need access to a functional computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later.

UniBeast is a tool that creates a bootable installer out of your downloaded version of OS X. By doing this, you can always go back to your working installation. We strongly recommend performing a full backup of your existing system using Carbon Copy Cloner. Get our latest UniBeast and MultiBeast tools from the downloads section.Ĥ.

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