Moving accounts from 1.x to 2.0

[directive0]

I have searched high and low and found many topics supporting questions similar to this but nothing concretely supporting my inquiry.  I apologize in advance if I have overlooked an obvious post containing my solution.

I have a forum that has a large user base, we are moving to a brand new smf 2.0 install and I really want to just provide my existing users that ability to simply use their previous login/password to access the new forum.  I realize that the SMF 1.X accounts database is not compatible with SMF 2.0.  Is there somewhere I could find an articulately written and concise set of instructions as to how I could effectively bring my old accounts over to my new forum?

Again, I am really sorry if this has been posted a million times, but it has been frustrating trying to find something that clearly lays out the requirements and steps to perform this task.  Thanks in advance.

[Arantor]

If you upgrade to 2.0 through the upgrader process, all your users and posts will be retained.

Please see http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Upgrading

[directive0]

That looks relatively easy, is that my only option?  I was hoping somewhat to make a clean break.

[Arantor]

Short of doing stuff in the database manually, that's about your only option.

Of course, you could just delete everything but members before doing the upgrade...

[directive0]

Thank you.  You have been a great help!