Cannot install El Capitan on 4 year old Mac.

I tried to install El Capitan on a Mac 4 year, who worked the Mountain Lion. I get a message telling me that it cannot be installed on this system. I have not had any problems with the installation of this new operating system on my MacBook which is even older. Can anyone help?

your computer is on this list and has 2 GB RAM and 8.5 GB free space?

Update of OS X El Capitan - Apple Support

is the disk/partition that you are trying to install in Mac extended (journaled) format

If it is what you receive the error message?

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