An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” – Check your network configuration as the install needs to pull down software over the internet.
Then I choose the second option to install OS X. At the very beginning of the installation I receive a popup. Can't download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X. So I connect to WiFi and try again. This time I get: The additional components needed to install Mac OS X can't be found. Anyone knows how to fix this? 2011 Mac book 'can't download the additional components needed to install mac os X' Question Trying to revive a 2011 Mac book and use internet recovery when I try and get it to begin the install it says the time remaining -2,000,000,000 and then 0 and then says the text in the title.
Can’t download the additional components Was trying to sell old MacBook Pro 2011, followed a video to reset using command r upon restart all worked fine till got this message after trying to re install Mac OS X Lion, “ can’t download the additional components needed to install max OS X”. Ask a friend/acquaintance at work/school who owns a mac to download the Mountain Lion installer from the app store and use it to create a bootable USB installer drive. You'll need to supply them with a USB drive (8Gb or larger), and possibly buy them a beverage of their choice to say thanks afterwards. BlackBerry OS, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) devices could not be used with iSync, but were supported by third-party applications. Before the release of Mac OS X 10.4, iSync also synchronized a user's Safari bookmarks with the then.Mac subscription service provided by Apple. ISync was removed from Mac OS X in version 10.7 (Lion).
But the network configuration is OK.!
Check that Software Update can connect directly to Apple Software Update Servers not a custom internal one, remove any Managed Preferences if it is a managed host.
Option 1
If that still doesn’t get rid of the message I have found on a device that the drive needed to be reformatted – the only thing different about the drive I was trying to install to was that it had a Boot Camp partition on it The Boot Camp partition might be a red herring but certainly reformatting the disk solved the issue.
So:
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- clone the main HD drive to an external disk use CCC – link below
- boot from the external
- erase/reformat the main HD – use HFS Extended Journaled
- clone back the main HD from the external
- reboot from the main drive
- run the installation upgrade again
This time – no problems.
If you don’t care whats on the disk just erase it and run the upgrade, I wanted to keep all the data intact in my example, hence the clone back.
Cloning courtesy of the fantastic bombastic CCC.
Option 2
Another potential solution is to remove any RAM over 4GB run the install and then put the additional RAM back in after – even then try and limit the RAM slots to one, so not 2GB in each – rather 1 slot with 4GB.
The certificates for several of Apples OS's expired in October 2019, Apple have been very poor at getting these updated on their Recovery Servers with valid certificates. This may be the problem you are experiencing.
Try this workaround, we are going to set the time and date on your mac to a date previous to the expiry date of the certificates.
Boot to your Recovery HD, click on Utilities in the menubar select Terminal.
Enter a new date, for example or just copy and paste
press Return
enter your password
press Return
Now try downloading the OS.
If this works when the OS is installed and booted up you can Open System Preferences> Date & Time
and reset the time back to today.
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Mac Os X Lion Can't Download Additional Components
Feb 5, 2020 12:40 PM