Some older machine (32bit opensuse) advanced to 13.2 32bit and came a long way over the past years. I think most of the recent years and opensuse versions it advanced via zypper dup. Some places recently say that machines should be moved over to 64bit opensuse if possible by hw. So I try to upgrade via usb drive to boot the 64bit opensuse 13.2 installer. It takes really many minutes to look my hard drive but doesnt offer me upgrade 32bit opensuse nor find partitions, but offers to create new partition on free space of hard disk and wants to install everything to this new partition or format other existing partitions to xfs and btrfs and crazy stuff. Only parition it cared for was the swap (first partition). I go into manual partitioning graphical interface and try to show various partitions and tell each one what actual mount point it is on the 32bit 13.2 opensuse. I have boot and root and var I think. At the end I was scared of kinda to make it try to install as I was uncertain if it would then take a look at the already existing 32bit suse and rpm datrabases and all the config and all and an additional pop up complained that yast was very low quality and no guarantees if one had especially reiser partitons and some other aspects were listed I can not remember any more. Is this really state of the art that perfectly fine working and booting reiserfs partitions in 32bit opensuse 13.2 are unsupported or not being recognised or considered an adequate situation for 64bit opensuse 13.2? Opensuse linux kind of seems very weird to me the recent years. More stuff gets abandoned and I wonder why it is even important what fileysystem a user has available if the kernel already supports it why does a userland install program complain about it? Isnt this what software layers are supposed to be for? If kernel can talk to disk and partitions why scare the user away or why make setup application fail to find the existing 32bit opensuse 13.2? I think that complaint box didnt even list ext2 as valid only spoke about btrfs or ext3 I think. Why abandon all the proven and existing stuff that lower layers of open source and gnu-linux world brings along as support? Seemingly every day, I understand less and less of the weird path and road and opensuse is heading down to and the choices made by the project. Maybe I am better off with a different distribution after all. c -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org