Trouble copying an SDA6 image to HDA1

[Ben McIntyre]

I am trying to resurrect an image from a dead machine to a Virtualbox VM.

Unfortunately I only have a ghost image (.GHO) of the original hda1, so I restored that to a spare partition sda6 and made a Clonezilla image of that.

I can fire up the VM, and restore from an image on a USB drive or a second virtual drive, but each time I get something along the lines of:
Target disk does not exist in the image saved from disk(s) 'sda'
Creating a tmp Clonezilla Image '{name}-tmp-convted' based on the image '{name}' so that we can restore the image {name} (was saved from sda) to hda ..

So it appears to be copying the image to /tmp - I'm not sure where that is mounted.
The copy is almost instant and it's a 30Gb image, so I'm pretty sure it's failing, but there's no error message.

But then, later, when it goes to do the actual restore, not surprisingly it fails.

Does anyone know
- why it has to convert the image (sda, hda - what difference does it make ??)
- if I can convert the image as part of the preparation rather than in the restore process
- otherwise, where /tmp is mounted so I can make sure it has enough room to do the image conversion properly

thanks

Ben

[Steven Shiau]

You can refer to this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq#102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq

Basically that's the limit of Clonezilla. You still can manually make that, with some of pre-process…

Steven.