Make a bootable USB of a running system on hard drive

[Member oldfisherman]

I recently bought 2 old dell latitude D610 laptops and have put antix 19 on both. Both are working to do everything just about I will use them for. The only difference is I upgraded one from 1000 to 2000 memory with a couple of chips I had from an old dell with a broken screen. I would like to clone the system on one to a bootable USB stick that will work on both. I have tried to take a snapshot and then create one with live usb maker. After three tries each time they start to boot but lock up. Is this the right procedure or should it be done another way. I just need to know if this is the right direction or should i try something else. Don’t need step by step directions just a pointer for the right way to do it.

This is what I have now;
Host: dell1 Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp
root=UUID=d12d38b4-d505-4248-a5eb-6071ac7ec47f ro vga=0x0317 quiet
Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 dm: SLiM 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19.3_386-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D610 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0C4708 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A06
date: 10/02/2005

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oldfisherman wrote:

I would like to clone the system on one to a bootable USB stick that will work on both. I have tried to take a snapshot and then create one with live usb maker. After three tries each time they start to boot but lock up. Is this the right procedure or should it be done another way.

What you’ve described is the way that I do it. Will they both boot from a normal, non-cloned, live usb?

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Here is where the boot stops when using the usb stick;

[ end kernel panic – not syncing; Unable to mount root fs on unknown – block (0,0)

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Yes they will boot from the usb I used on the old Dell with the broken screen. Had to switch to another my main computer in the office to answer because the other stick would not recognize the wifi driver.

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