Install El Capitan Without Apple Id

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I have an iMac(Early 2009) running Leopard (10.5.8). Now I want to upgrade my OS to El Capitan (10.11).

Get a copy of Apple’s OS X El Capitan from the Mac App Store. Launch the Mac App Store on. Very easy way to reinstall Mac if you are thinking about selling your computer or simply need to install a fresh copy OS X El Capitan follow the tutorial to. Answer (1 of 4): If you have a Mac of your own, you could download it onto a large capacity flash drive, and then copy it onto your friend’s Mac to install it. The installer itself doesn't need an Apple Id, but it may want you to sign into iCloud after installation. I personally have a flash driv. The Apple ID is just to verify you have El Cap. It does not sync your Apple ID to the OS. Once the OS is installed it’ll go through the standard user account setup on a brand new machine. It’s when you create the user account that you have the sync option. At this point you can just turn off the laptop by holding the power button.

You can try making a bootable installer, erase the drive, install and you might be able to just skip the Apple ID part. Then the customer may be able to create a new Apple ID to use with that machine. I actually just checked mine and don't think there is a way to make iCloud 'forget' that device.

The situation is this one:

✔ my iMac version is listed under the upgradable devices

✘ MacOSX 10.6.8 is required to be installed (due to Mac App Store introduction) on the iMac Sim card puk code hack.

Official solution (or what I undestood reading Apple website)

Can I Install El Capitan Without Apple Id

  • buy the DVD of Snow Leopard (10.6) from online Apple Store and install it on 10.5.8;
  • update the OS until 10.6.8;
  • use the App Store to download and install El Capitan.

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Said that, after some search, I found this macworld article showing alternative methods to upgrade from 10.5.8 MacOSX version to a more recent one. This reading brought me to another solution:

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Alternative solution

  • use a Mac of a friend of mine which runs El Capitan to download El Capitan from Mac App Store;
  • create a bootable usb stick from it;
  • use it to do a clean install on my iMac (erasing all disk content before choosing the HDD in which to install El Capitan)
  • configure my iMac creating my Apple ID

Questions

  1. Will solution 2 work?
  2. Is solution 2 legal?

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The linked article hit my questions' topics but I did not deeply understand nor the configuration of the Apple ID on the fresh installed El Capitan nor the legal aspects of the solution.