Upgrade 4.6c to 4.7 in new hardware, is there any easy way?

Hello,

I am a very junior consultant so I apologize in advance if I am asking

naive questions.

We are planning to move our 4.6c system to 4.7 and to a different

hardware. I've been told that the standard way to achieve it is to

install 4.6c in the new computer, import the original 4.6c database

from the newly installed R/3, and then start the upgrade process, which

might be tedious.

Is it possible to perform the upgrade by just installing 4.7 in the new

computer and then import the 4.6c database? Or does it exist any other

direct approach? We have no problem with downtime.

I will also appreciate any links or other source of information.

Thanks in advance and kind regards.

Antonio Sánchez.