I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?
Thank you for any tips.
If you dd your entire laptop drive to the entire flash drive it should be able to boot. It might not work the same with just one partition though. Also, how big is your USB stick!?!?
You can easily get 1TB USB sticks.