Download ISO image from [https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst]. Find out the name of the USB drive using the lsblk tool. On most Linux distributions the USB flash drive will be automatically mounted when inserted. Unmount the USB partitions first.

# lsblk
# umount /dev/sdx1
# dd bs=4M if=/path/to/debian-XX.X.X-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress oflag=sync

To collect config files, etc.

rsync -aAXz --verbose --itemize-changes --times --recursive --whole-file --delete --links --exclude dev/* --exclude proc/* --exclude sys/* --exclude tmp/* --exclude run/* --exclude mnt/* --exclude media/* --exclude lost+found --exclude var/lib/lxcfs/cgroup/* --exclude var/lib/lxcfs/proc/* / /media/oscar/Sandisk8GB

Linux SSD Optimization

journalctl

While creating tmpfs tmp and var directories some subdirectories will not be present after a reboot. Some deamons (e.g. anacron) will fail to start, due to this. To prevent this create entries into /etc/tmpfiles.d:

nano /etc/tmpfiles.d/anacron.conf

#Type Path                 Mode UID   GID   Age Argument
d     /var/spool/anacron 774 0 0 - -

Reload the config with:

systemd-tmpfiles --create

Add user to the sudo group and allow run mount without password being asked linux:system:sudoers

Bluetooth setup

linux:apps:lightdm

apt-get install gimp
apt-get install gparted
apt-get install galculator
kicad
lightDM GTK+ greeter settings