Magic upgrade?

[mtnredhed]

Oddly enough, this went too easy. I was on 9.1.0.1, full install on a spinning HD. All data on it's own drives, just the system on the boot drive. using ZFS. Going great. I'm thinking I'd like to convert to embedded. I pull down the image, un pack it, and install it on a USB stick. I save off the config, shutdown and the system boots off the stick. I didn't disconnect the original system drive.

The system comes up on the new s/w, but somehow it must of read the old system disk, and it's ready to rock. I just need to clear the disk config and import. ZFS is up, the user accts are there, it's great.

Two questions:
Can I pull the old system disk out now?
Are you really that awesome or was I just really lucky?

[b0ssman]

well what i think happens is that the usb drive finds the config partition on the old drive and uses it.

just disconnect the old drive. and boot of the usb and restore the config.

if anything goes wrong you can just reconnect the old disc and are right where you left off.

[mtnredhed]

worked. I did have to restore the config and re-import the disks, but that was easy. The only scary part is that I must of knocked either power or data loose on one of the mirrored drives. I had to open it back up, reseat all the connectors, and then we were happy again.