It doesn't. 

On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 6:06:00 AM UTC-7, Russell Courtenay wrote:
>
> I guess I missed that iOS 10.3 requires Sierra, good thing I haven't 
> upgraded my iPhone 6 yet! Unless I do some upgrades on my 2008 iMac I am 
> NOT doing Sierra.
>
> Russell Courtenay
> July is national *what* month?
> tinyurl.com/julybeans
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 31, 2017, at 11:06 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry it took so long to get back to you guys.  Life has been busy.
>>
> I was able to resurrect my iMac.  I found a way to eject the stuck Snow 
> Leopard disc and put in an install disc that I found in the original Apple 
> Care package that came with the computer and boot from it holding down the 
> C key.  From there I was able to clean up some of the mess with disk 
> utilities.  I have been back up and running for about a week.
>
> Why do I want to run Sierra on this old computer?  I need to have Sierra 
> running to connect my iPhone 5S to the iMac so I can load my music and 
> other stuff on the phone using iTunes.  My iphone is running on ios 10.3 
> and it will not connect with the iMac running 10.7.5.  I don't have a good 
> enough reason to spend $1500+ on a new computer.  This old iMac runs great 
> on 10.7.  It does a good job of making videos and burning them, running my 
> music editing and recording software, and just about anything else I need 
> done.   No point in buying a new machine.
>
> But I do still want to put Sierra on a partition on an external drive so I 
> can link up my phone.  I guess I must have done something wrong on the 
> previous attempt.  I am going to give it another try tomorrow.  I'll read 
> through the literature on using the install patch again and hopefully I 
> won't screw it up this time.
>
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