How to Restore/Boot from Mavericks

Greetings,
I work at an elementary school and am trying to use Diskmaker X to create a bootable drive in order to restore a .dmg volume that I created in our lab. I created a Mavericks installer on both a 16GB USB thumb drive, as well as installing it on a 200GB partition of a TB drive.
Here's the steps I'm following:
1. Boot from Diskmaker Mavericks Installer (tried using both the USB Thumb drive and TB drive versions)
Restart holding down OPTION button, choose Mavericks installer
2. Open Disk Utility
3. Choose "Macintosh HD" on left sidebar> RESTORE
4. Choose/navigage to the .dmg image I created as "Source" (called "Mavericks Feb 2014.dmg", which is 16GB in size). This source .dmg is on a partition of the same external HD as the Mavericks installer I created with DiskMaker. I've also tried using my 16GB USB thumb drive with Mavericks DiskImage installer on it, and the source .dmg from a different external drive.
5. Choose/drag "Macintosh HD" as destination
"Erase "Macintosh HD" and copy the contents of "Mavericks Feb 2014.dmg" to it
6. Click RESTORE and click ERASE after being prompted "Are you sure you want to erase and restore?"
7. Receive error: "RESTORE FAILURE - Not enough space on /dev/disk0s2 to restore"
Any ideas why this is happening? Can you help? I am trying to "clone" computers in my lab to an image I created that contains all the apps, settings, etc. that I want for students to use. The process worked just fine on our new iMacs (the ones that do not have an optical drive) but the older iMacs fail to restore the image. When I tried inserting a Snow Leopard Install DVD the iMac just spits it out before I can boot to it, which is how I discovered the DiskMaker app.
iMac Specs:
OSX 10.9.1
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core Duo
Memory: 2 GB
HD: 160GB
I hope my question makes sense.
Thanks for any help or guidance you can provide.
Joel Solomon
Village East Elementary
Technology Specialist

I figured it out. I was using a clone from a newer iMac and was trying to
restore the dmg to an older iMac. Somehow the processor and other things
weren¹t compatible between iMacs. I wound up making a 2nd .dmg clone from
the older iMac, and now it's working!

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