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For ac2334;

This is what I did.

1. Hooked up the SSD to a Firewire dock to the Mac Pro 5,1.
2. Booted up the Mac Pro 5,1 from the SSD.
3. Downloaded the tool in post # 679 by TMRJIJ.
4. Ran the post # 679 tool.
5. Then launched the MAS application and selected the Updates button.
6. A minute later DP 2 Sierra was displayed and proceeded the download.
7. The DP 2 Sierra installer automatically launched and installed the update.
8. After the installation was completed, the Mac Pro 5,1 booted normally from the SSD.
9. I shut down the Mac Pro 5,1 and disconnected the SSD from the Firewire dock.
10. Placed the SSD back in my MBP 5,1.
* Note below.
11. Inserted the USB flash drive with dosdude1's setup installation and tool.
12. Booted the MBP 5,1 from the USB flash drive.
13. Ran the Post Install tool from the USB flash drive.
14. The MBP 5,1 rebooted utilizing the SSD.

* Yeah, after placing the SSD back in the MBP 5,1, I did the boot up but noticed the keyboard/trackpad was unresponsive then continued with step 11 above.

Everything is normal again.
 
Was able to get the patched installer to boot (thanks @dosdude1!) but after running the post install application, I still cannot get USB working in DP2 on my MBP5,4. Anyone had luck so far?
 
macsba said:
For ac2334;

This is what I did.

1. Hooked up the SSD to a Firewire dock to the Mac Pro 5,1.
2. Booted up the Mac Pro 5,1 from the SSD.
3. Downloaded the tool in post # 679 by TMRJIJ.
4. Ran the post # 679 tool.
5. Then launched the MAS application and selected the Updates button.
6. A minute later DP 2 Sierra was displayed and proceeded the download.
7. The DP 2 Sierra installer automatically launched and installed the update.
8. After the installation was completed, the Mac Pro 5,1 booted normally from the SSD.
9. I shut down the Mac Pro 5,1 and disconnected the SSD from the Firewire dock.
10. Placed the SSD back in my MBP 5,1.
* Note below.
11. Inserted the USB flash drive with dosdude1's setup installation and tool.
12. Booted the MBP 5,1 from the USB flash drive.
13. Ran the Post Install tool from the USB flash drive.
14. The MBP 5,1 rebooted utilizing the SSD.

* Yeah, after placing the SSD back in the MBP 5,1, I did the boot up but noticed the keyboard/trackpad was unresponsive then continued with step 11 above.

Everything is normal again.
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Ok, thank you for those details. Was the reason that you ran it first from an external because that was the only way that would work..?
 
Curious... could Apple have supported these older WiFi/Bluetooth cards and early Core 2 Duos if they had wanted to? I mean, what about Sierra wouldn't have allowed it to function on specific cards normally found in 2008/2009 Macs?

Did they really have hardware limitations, or is Apple being lazy? Not sure why some Broadcom chips wouldn't work and some would. And then there are those odd CPU limitations that plague the 2006/2007 models.
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
Curious... could Apple have supported these older WiFi/Bluetooth cards and early Core 2 Duos if they had wanted to? I mean, what about Sierra wouldn't have allowed it to function on specific cards normally found in 2008/2009 Macs?

Did they really have hardware limitations, or is Apple being lazy? Not sure why some Broadcom chips wouldn't work and some would. And then there are those odd CPU limitations that plague the 2006/2007 models.
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Of course they could update the WiFi kext for compatibility, but unsupported Macs are unsupported.
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
Curious... could Apple have supported these older WiFi/Bluetooth cards and early Core 2 Duos if they had wanted to? I mean, what about Sierra wouldn't have allowed it to function on specific cards normally found in 2008/2009 Macs?

Did they really have hardware limitations, or is Apple being lazy? Not sure why some Broadcom chips wouldn't work and some would. And then there are those odd CPU limitations that plague the 2006/2007 models.
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Fairly sure they could of. Apple is just greedy though. Spectacular profits, but can't be bothered to do the enviormnetally correct thing and support machines that have no reason not to be supported.
 
ncrispi said:
Is there a way found to update sierra without a supported Mac?
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At this point, no, but I am currently experimenting, so hopefully I'll be able to find a solution. If a solution is found, it will be added to the latest build of the macOS Sierra Patcher application.
 
dosdude1 said:
At this point, no, but I am currently experimenting, so hopefully I'll be able to find a solution. If a solution is found, it will be added to the latest build of the macOS Sierra Patcher application.
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Great! Thank you!
 
redheeler said:
Of course they could update the WiFi kext for compatibility, but unsupported Macs are unsupported.
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Yeah, I was making sure that they were actually being lazy and that there wasn't something about the older cards that they couldn't work with.

The new CPU requirements, though, are likely more legit, right? Talked about this with dosdude1. There's a possibility that those new CPU requirements were needed for the OS to be more optimized for its compatible chips... unless it's yet another prohibitive feature of Apple's.
 
Also I suppose there isn't a download enabler is there like for Yosemite back in the day? It's just me and my ol mid 2009 iMac. VM is probably out of the question.
 
So, at this point, the only way to get one of the older Mac's to beta 2 is remove the drive and use a supported system to upgrade, move the drive back and patch? (Asking before I go through the effort)

You guys do good work, appreciate it all.
 
I'm trying it out on a vmware image right now, but can you not just upgrade your existing install by following dosdudes app? rather than swap out the drive etc.
 
Nossie said:
I'm trying it out on a vmware image right now, but can you not just upgrade your existing install by following dosdudes app? rather than swap out the drive etc.
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Yeah, you can. Unfortunately, however, it appears my fix for the installer no longer works, causing the install to fail. Working on fixing that.
 
gsmornot said:
So, at this point, the only way to get one of the older Mac's to beta 2 is remove the drive and use a supported system to upgrade, move the drive back and patch? (Asking before I go through the effort)

You guys do good work, appreciate it all.
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Maybe, something was wrong with Software Update, because i have multiple Sierra installations on multiple Macs (one unsupported MacBookPro and two supported iMac) but neither is showing beta2 in App Store. I'm not the only one: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/50917
 
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