My upgrade from the ixsystems Mini X+ to the Mini R went well.
I ended up doing the following,
Backed up Mini X+ config with export password secert seed.
Installed my addon tp-link 2.5g card.
This Mini R shipped with Truenas Core installed on a M.2 NVMe SSD, doesn’t have drivers for the network card. No problem. Cable connected to the ix0 port and dhcp assigned IP and connected to it with truenas.local .
Updated Core to Scale 24.04 (which has my network card drivers).
Rebooted, recabled and From console reconfigured my 2.5g card to my “old” static IP.
Went back into GUI and connected again to it with truenas.local.
Updated Scale 24.04 to 24.10.1
Restored the mini X+ config to the Mini R.
System reboots after the config upload, wait 5-10 seconds and did a manual shutdown.
Finally Installed the 5 raidz2 drives in the Mini R.
Rebooted and I’m good to go.
Now waiting for the 24.10.2 update at the end of the month to start expanding the raidz2 drives.
So anyone with a Truenas Mini X, this is an easy upgrade.
The saga continues…