Little Help w/ El Cap Install from Mavs?

[SteveO]

space-time wrote:
I just unpacked a NEW Mac Mini 2012 with Mavericks and I used this link to updated to El Cap, first, then High Sierra and later Mavericks. Somewhere along the way it did change the format from HFS+ to APFS, and I think it also did some firmware updates along the way.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

I used those links 2 days ago. Worked for me.

Now need to take the spinner our and put an SSD

Thanks, gonna try the reading comprehension route first. Ha. ;-)