How to Migrate to a new PC

[Gerry Doris]

I have a working FC6 system that is running on an old tired PC.  The FC6 
install has several non Fedora applications running on it and the 
standard applications have the normal modifications.  I now want to move 
to a new faster PC. 

I loaded FC8 on the new PC and it worked without a problem so I know the 
new PC works with FC8.  I've configured the new PC hard drive with the 
same partitions as my FC6 PC.  However, the drives are much bigger on 
the new PC and are named differently.  For example, the old box has an 
hda and hdd but no hdb or hdc for some reason? 

I really don't want to do a fresh install, load and then configure the 
applications from scratch.  Ideally, I'd like to copy the FC6 system to 
the new PC and then upgrade it to FC8.  I know it won't be clean but 
I've upgraded in the past and understand the process.  I'd also rather 
do the upgrade to FC8 on the new PC for a number of reasons.

What is the best way to do this?  Can I copy over the contents of the 
partitions and then try and modify the key files so it will boot?  I'd 
have to change grub.conf and fstab but what else would need to be 
modified.  If I can get the system to boot I'm confident I can make the 
other necessary changes .