Hi.
Thanks for taking time to advise.
I used the "advanced" option to clone the disks as "Basic" rather than LVM , as the last machine failed with LVM and all that I read said to used "Basic" . On the source machine /boot and / are on the separate partitions on the same disk. Convert creates separate disk with a partition of /boot (sda1) and another disk with a partition / (sdb1) . I have yet to figure out how to get it done in once disk. I have tried editing the disk layout with no luck. Also the swap partition is missing from all the machines that have been created.
I'm busy investigating your recommendations and will give feedback.
Thank you.