I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet.
The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie
installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have
multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet
connectivity. It has a small partition set aside for preseed.cfg
and miscellaneous scripts.
The second machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as source
of preseed and script files.
My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or
fine detail. Most link assume a server with multiple clients.
Better description would be a peer to peer setup. It may be
convenient to have the Windows machine act as a terminal for the
Debian machine.
Suggested search terms or links.
Thank you.
