Hi, Jan Wilmans wrote > - I have put debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-kde.iso on a USB stick directly > using rufus-3.9.exe
With its "dd" mode, i assume. > the live images contains a filesystem.squashfs Yeah. Tricky. > But I thought there must surely be a simpler way? Install Debian to the USB stick as if it was a hard disk like any other, rather than putting the ISO image onto the stick. If it were only about having some files at hand, i'd advise to add a partition to the stick with a read-write filesystem. But you want to interfere with the system's start-up. And "rc.local" does not look like your plan is in the contemporary mainstream of starting up. Have a nice day :) Thomas