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* Make sure you have the ''syslinux'' package installed on the operating system that you will use to prepare the Live USB image. It is recommended that you also have the ''isomd5sum'' package installed. The ''cryptsetup'' package is another option potentially used by the "livecd-iso-to-disk" installation script. (On Ubuntu, <code>sudo apt-get install syslinux isomd5sum cryptsetup</code> will install the packages.)
 
* Make sure you have the ''syslinux'' package installed on the operating system that you will use to prepare the Live USB image. It is recommended that you also have the ''isomd5sum'' package installed. The ''cryptsetup'' package is another option potentially used by the "livecd-iso-to-disk" installation script. (On Ubuntu, <code>sudo apt-get install syslinux isomd5sum cryptsetup</code> will install the packages.)
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* It might be needed to uncomment 'SAMPLE FILE' in /etc/mtools/mtools.conf to make syslinux work,at least on gentoo.
 
**''syslinux'' is needed to set up booting on the FAT file system of the USB disc or Live CD.
 
**''syslinux'' is needed to set up booting on the FAT file system of the USB disc or Live CD.
 
**''isomd5sum'' is needed for the recommended verification step, which checks that the .iso file is complete after its travels. If there is a problem with the .iso file, the script will exit and provide a failure message.  The verification step can be bypassed by using the <code>--noverify</code> option.
 
**''isomd5sum'' is needed for the recommended verification step, which checks that the .iso file is complete after its travels. If there is a problem with the .iso file, the script will exit and provide a failure message.  The verification step can be bypassed by using the <code>--noverify</code> option.
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  #!/bin/bash
 
  #!/bin/bash
 
  udevadm info $*
 
  udevadm info $*
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* Watch out for errors in the output of the script, the script seams to ignore them!(and say all is fine on the last line).
    
== What's next? ==
 
== What's next? ==
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