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

[john mitchell]

   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

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
>