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 > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
