I decided to bring an old MacBook back to life by installing an extra 1TB SSD and macOS Monterey. Aside from needing to erase and format the SSD with another Mac (the MacBook couldn’t seem to do it from the Monterey installer). Anyway, the process was easy enough with Open Core Legacy Patcher. I may end up helping others do this and figured I’d leave myself and others a cheatsheet:

• • I checked for machine compatibility.
  • I perused Open Core Legacy’s online instructions.
  • And I watched Mr. Macintosh do a clean install and an upgrade.

Everything went fine and I’d definitely try this on another machine if the opportunity arises. Our macbook6,1 only has 8 GB of RAM and so far things seem to be running fine.