On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100726/5abc9846/attachment-0005.html>