Flash Archive Install Question

Recently I flashed a box to create a flash archive. That archive was served out via NFS and "seen" by the client server I built. Used image to sucessfully build the client server, but the disk is not sliced up like my source box. Is there something I missed in doing this? Any info on this will be greatly appreciated.
- Charles

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