I would recommend you to do a fresh install as your fully updated beta3 is at least the same and possibly a day or three younger than the RC. So you already have the RC code running, but the key element of RC testing is "end-to-end" so we can be confident that all of the install-type issues have been fixed for everyone and that the first boot works as expected.
If, like me, you are already happily running beta3 updated (aka RC plus a few hours worth of updates) you may be hoping to avoid the "hassle" of a reinstall of your lovingly customised system. You could, perhaps, find a small free corner of a hard drive you could install to, and then abandon when you have checked out the installation and first boot. My solution has been to rotate a small number of external usb drives (up to 3 at the moment, but I was greedy). The oldest started life as alpha2 and was maintained up to the end of beta1 when I reinstalled as beta2. The second one started as beta 2 and has been maintained up to now. The third one started life as beta3 and is still bang up-to-date. I hope you find some useful ideas in this - happy testing! Richard On 07/05/2012, Bo Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:14:19AM +0200, Anne Nicolas wrote: >> As a consequence, the date for final release will be a bit postponed >> to give us enough time to check last feedbacks from RC testers. > > If I'm running M2B3 when the final is released shoud I update or will I need > to do a fresh install of the final release. Probably sounds like > a dumb question but I have never run a beta before. Thanks. >
