Hardrive Died Purchased Ssd Get Error Macos Lion Can T Download Macbook Pro 13 Unibody Late 2011

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Bought an old Late 2011 13’ MacBook pro with a dead HDD in it, bought an SSD, erased and set up recovery mode (cmd+r), in recovery mode, it won’t allow me to download and install macOS Lion, get the error “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X “. Checked connection, no problem, can’t even boot from the HDD to clone. Any ideas on how to get Lion on it?

I believe another member had a similar issue; apparently there is a known issue with installing newer software on older MacBooks. The link to the chosen solution is below: re installing OSX problems