On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 17:46:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 4:34 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 09:45:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>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. > > > >What is your present technique for getting files from the second machine > >to the first one? > > Write files a USB flash drive in format readable to other machine. > That is a nuisance!
Sneakernet. :) You're on your way to a more wholesome file transfer method. Good luck.