USB hard drive installation - "unable copy files to new root'

[bigal]

Hi I have been running PCLinuxOS off a USB Toshiba 360Gb hard drive (not live), All good. Now I want to install it over to another USB drive.
Everything works perfectly in current (Toshiba) USB, but when I use draklive install  this after defining and formatting space on another USB drive to EXT4 and defining this EXT active partition as \ with a separate 2gb Linux swap partition. Draklive goes through the initial setup when [done] is pressed and the warning that the new partition is about to be formatted, then after a while comes up with "unable to copy files to new root" error message.

Ideally, I want to have my Toshiba USB as a pristine tailor-made installation of PCLinuxOS and be able to replicate it to other USB drives or similar. also, especially would be great if Draklive would do all the work if possible.

Searching for the error message does not provide any answers thanks very much.
Al.

[everge48]

Ideally, I want to have my Toshiba USB as a pristine tailor-made installation of PCLinuxOS and be able to replicate it to other USB drives or similar. also, especially would be great if Draklive would do all the work if possible.

If you want to make an exact clone use Clonezilla, works real good.
As far as wanting to use draklive you could just boot from your PCLOS Live CD and use draklive from there to format the drive and make the partitions.

[bigal]

If you want to make an exact clone use Clonezilla, works real good.
As far as wanting to use draklive you could just boot from your PCLOS Live CD and use draklive from there to format the drive and make the partitions.

Hi no I want to be able to replicate my custom made version existing on the USB hard drive. I will look at Clonezilla, but definitely using a LiveCD is not an option unless I create my own, which I'm not up to yet!

[djohnston]

bigal,

If I understand correctly, you are booting your running system from an external USB drive. You now want to clone that hard drive setup to another external USB drive. If that is the case, you will not be able to clone the first drive to the second one using draklive while the first one is mounted and in use as the root partition. That's the reason you are getting the "unable to copy files to new root" error message. That is also why 4evergr8ful suggested using clonezilla for the task. It is specifically used for cloning drives and partitions.

Clonezilla is a live CD you download here: http://clonezilla.org/

It is used by booting the CD, then specifying what drives and partitions you want to do an exact copy of. Hope that helps.

[Was_Just19]

Have you considered a remaster of your present install?  Then use that to install it wherever you like.

Check out    mylivecd  ...... 

[Ferdes Fides]

bigal,

If I understand correctly, you are booting your running system from an external USB drive.
...

That's the reason you are getting the "unable to copy files to new root" error message.

Hello,

I wonder why I do not get that error when I install from a LiveCD booted off a flashdrive,
where the target is another flash drive.

I am getting that error on one flash drive but I think it is due to the drive being bad and
unmountable.


regards,

patrick013