I tried (for the first time) creating and then copying a disk image (of my Mint installation) to an external USB disk/drive using Clonezilla. The intended target disk is recognized by Clonezilla during the setup prep process, but after set into operation Clonezilla message was "no input device!" so of course the operation was aborted. My intended target disk for the image is empty, with all unallocated space. Could that be the reason? For it to work do I need to create a partition on the empty disk first?
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"no input device!" means the Clonezilla wizard can not find any partitions.
So if you want to save the source disk as an image on the destination disk, either create a partition and format it, or you have to manually mount it by something like:
mount /dev/sdb /home/partimag/
Steven.
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I tried (for the first time) creating and then copying a disk image (of my Mint installation) to an external USB disk/drive using Clonezilla. The intended target disk is recognized by Clonezilla during the setup prep process, but after set into operation Clonezilla message was "no input device!" so of course the operation was aborted. My intended target disk for the image is empty, with all unallocated space. Could that be the reason? For it to work do I need to create a partition on the empty disk first?
"no input device!" means the Clonezilla wizard can not find any partitions.
So if you want to save the source disk as an image on the destination disk, either create a partition and format it, or you have to manually mount it by something like:
mount /dev/sdb /home/partimag/
Steven.