Personally, I would take the drive that I'm going to boot the new hardware on, plug it into the old computer, set up the disk, transfer the data, & see if it boots.
Something like [thread=11680]this[/thread].
I've also used tar(1), & pax(1) for this in days past.
If you're moving from say i386 to amd64, it gets a bit more complicated, but still not [thread=11019]impossible[/thread].
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