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Hi rgordon.
I understand the logic and it makes sense to manually edit the old bigip.conf. But if you replace the ENTIRE bigip.conf file of the new F5 with the ENTIRE bigip.conf of the old F5, you'll have to do a "tmsh load sys config" and hope it all loads just fine (I'm unsure it will) and even if it does all sort of things can go wrong.
I would try the merge option described before as it will tell you what's required to make the old config work on the new device without actually breaking anything :) and will give you more control over the config.
You could even break the old file down in different smaller text files (one with just the nodes and pools for example) and run the merge verify on that, then do the profiles, vips, etc.
Rgds,