How can I move this system?

[Randux]

Solaris is a very stubborn OS and it refuses to cooperate on the box I wanted it to live on so I have to move an installed FreeBSD system to another box to make room for Solaris.

If I do a minimal FreeBSD install on the new box and partition the slice and make filesystems, and then rsync my whole existing install on top of the new one will this work?

Is there a better way to do this?

Also, I have 500G to allocate to FreeBSD and the disklabel doesn't allow for many partitions. How would you allocate this much space for a general desktop box for development and a web server?

Thank you.