[Pc_Support] AMD 64 Dilema

[Homer Whittaker]

I am a loss as to the "best" way to do the following:

My main machine has Debian 3.1, and is an x386 machine with two hard 
drives, one a 40 G and the second a 120 G.  The second hard drive has 
very little on it, and anything that is on it is expendable.

I have another machine that is a Suse 9.0 /64 and has an Asus AMD 64 
board with 1 G memory and a 450 W P/S.  This machine has a 30 G hard 
drive and the second drive is 40 G.  I hate the Suse 9.1 and 
additionally Suse  mounted the OS on the second drive  when I was not 
paying attention, while the boot is on the first drive.     To the best 
of my recollection there is nothing on the first drive except /boot.

My dilema is that I would like to make the AMD 64 my main machine and 
add Debian 64 as well as Ubantu 64.  Hardware wise, I would like to 
switch the 120 G hard drive for one of the smaller drives on the AMD 64 
machine.   The Suse OS is a pig and seems to want to control everything, 
like calling the drives hard drives /hde and /hdf with the cd and dvd 
being /hdg and /hdh.   In /dev they have /dev/dos-hda0.../dev/dos-hda1 
and /dev/dos-hdb0 ... /dos-hdb15 as well as the normal /dev/hda, etc.

This is where I start to get lost because I do not know what will happen 
after I switch hard drives and put the Debian 64 and Ubantu 64 on this 
revised box.

Any suggestions so that I can trade machines and still not lose too much 
data?

Homer Whittaker