Did I screw up trying to keg carbonate with sugar?

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Decided to try using 1/2 the amount of bottling sugar to carb a corney keg. After racking the beer onto the sugar solution I purged the top of the keg with CO2 to force out the O2 so I would not oxidize my beer moving the keg downstairs. Now I wonder if I left enough O2 for the remaining yeast to do their thing over the next 3 weeks. Any thoughts?
 
As long as you leave it sit at room temp (70-75*F) for 2-3 weeks, it should carb up just fine.

It would indeed have been a mistake to not purge the air out of the headspace with CO2.
 
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