[TriLUG] peer to peer file transfer from boot disk or cd

[Mike Norwood]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, john mitchell wrote:

>    I'm not sure that this Live CD will do ALL you need, but here at home it 
> boots, it confiqugures the enet card (DHCP) and the web site says that it can 
> write to NTFS disks.
> 
> http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
> 
> john mitchell

Thanks,  I will download and give it a try.

> 
> Mike Norwood wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We sometimes need to transfer files from Windows PC's to Linux PC's away 
> > from our offices.  We generally do not know much about the Windows PC in 
> > advance, but if they have a cdrom writer great, if not then we can be in 
> > trouble.  We sometimes just use a parallel port zip drive as these are 
> > generally older pcs, but then we sometimes have to mess around in the bios 
> > to make sure parallel port configured correctly.  
> > 
> > What I am really looking for is a process where I can boot the windows 
> > machine from a linux disk or cd (it would be ideal if small enough to fit 
> > on either, as sometimes one or the other does not work), and as easily as 
> > possible (with minimum user interaction, as I am not the only one who does 
> > this), the network card is detected, the drive is mounted, IP address is 
> > assigned.  Ideally there would also be a separate diskette or cd that 
> > would run on the Linux end that would temporarily run necessary services 
> > for the other end (DHCP, ftp or ssh server, etc.) as I do not really want 
> > to run any of these permanently on the linux machine.  I am sure that I 
> > can do this given them time, (using one of the many linux distributions 
> > on floppy or cd) but if anyone is aware of a good starting point or has 
> > already done anything similar, any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Mike Norwood
> > 
>