On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:

You can't do an image clone to a smaller target.  If you need to do this, get a
matching or larger target drive.  Or, install from scratch on the USB device and
 then copy over any files you need from the source drive.

If you want to do much disk cloning, look at the bootable clonezilla-live CD.
It makes it simple and knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used
blocks, but it still can't move a large source to a smaller disk - although it
could put a compressed image there that could be used as a source to restore the
larger drive.  If you are just looking for a full backup and don't expect to run
from the USB, that might work for you.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@gmail.com



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I tried to install from the installation media . I put the install cd and then tried for 'expert' and select /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda as the media to install on. But at the end my machine cannot be booted from the usb disk. Can you please let me know how can I make it as bootable disk?