[Mageia-discuss] Quick news about Mageia 2 RC isos

[RICHARD WALKER]

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 <vcg3rdbo at gmail.com> 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.
>