<< Solved >> El Capitan to Catalina

[sevitoto]

Hello all... I am still very happy with my El Capitan which has always run smoothly but my Google sync app is not supported anymore so I am considering an upgrade...
I suppose upgrading from El Capitan to Catalina cannot be done by the standard upgrade. What procedure would you recommend? Start from scratch?
Also I have an nvidia card (GT 740).... is it possible to run it on Catalina and find adapted drivers?

Thanks very much for your help...

 

[Feartech]

Hello all... I am still very happy with my El Capitan which has always run smoothly but my Google sync app is not supported anymore so I am considering an upgrade...
I suppose upgrading from El Capitan to Catalina cannot be done by the standard upgrade. What procedure would you recommend? Start from scratch?
Also I have an nvidia card (GT 740).... is it possible to run it on Catalina and find adapted drivers?

Thanks very much for your help...

i have moved your post to desktop support

 

[sevitoto]

Thank you Feartech

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hello all... I am still very happy with my El Capitan which has always run smoothly but my Google sync app is not supported anymore so I am considering an upgrade...
I suppose upgrading from El Capitan to Catalina cannot be done by the standard upgrade. What procedure would you recommend? Start from scratch?
Also I have an nvidia card (GT 740).... is it possible to run it on Catalina and find adapted drivers?

Thanks very much for your help...

The GT 740 is natively supported on MacOS Catalina so it should work directly.

I would install Catalina from scratch on a new disk. Keep the old disk with El Capitan (disconnect or disable when installing Catalina) so that in case of problems you can still fall back to El Capitan and work from there.

 

[sevitoto]

Thank you very much Bond....James Bond.
Silly question... Trying an upgrade directly from El Capitan to Catalina like a standard user would not work?

 

[sevitoto]

Thank you all.
Everything worked smoothly. Installed a fresh Catalina (with gitMacOs).
Audio and graphic settings which had been a bit tricky at the time with El Capitan worked like a charm this time.
thank you again.