Thanks for reply. My current 32bit 13.2 works fine. It boots fine. Everything okay. I do wonder why the install procedure and components need to deprecate components deliberately or at will or by accident, that the actual linux/suse actually supports just fine. As I said it doesnt find or recognize the partitions meaning which to select for root partition and for it to display that there is a 13.2 installed already. I am doing the dvd/iso upgrade method offline. But just most likely because of reiser partitions or some obscure logic it doesnt want to display and find the existing 13.2. I did this many times in the past (staying within bitness), and 13.2 upgraded 13.1 fine (32bits) and it was the same reiser partitions and all back then. The suse installer now behaves for example coparable to it decides on itself to say hey i dont like your keyboard or i dont like your video please get lost, although the linux itself just takes your keyboard or video just fine. This doesnt make any sense to me. This is hindering and bothering the user. Why can 32bit 13.2 installer upgrade my old 13.1 system just fine, but why can the same 13.2 installer not upgrade the bitness of already existing 13.2. Does these processes or places in the source code of the installer detect the partitions or the system itself differently? can the one subroutines detect the reiser partitions and the other choses to block or just disregard the partitions? or the rpm database or where and how it identifies an existing opensuse system and then lists it as an entry that 13.1 root is on /dev/sda2 or similar it used to show in the years before and still when going from 13.1 to 13.2 on 32bit. A 13.2 just boots reiser fine and the partition tools in those expert modes and advanced modus during install also lists the partitions and identifies them as reiser and all, only the installer apparently never gets into that sage where it prints out that little table where it says, yes I have found an opensuse x on partition p and do you wana select that to upgrade or to install and so forth. That is what this thread is about. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org