On Thursday 18 August 2016 14:58:23 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/17/2016 8:07 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, 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. > >> > >> My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or fine 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. > > > > It would help if you provided more information about your network and > > computers: > > > > 1. Laptop make, model, and version, CPU make and model, RAM size, > > HDD/SSD size, and Ethernet speed of Windows laptop. > > > > 2. Experimental laptop and key parameters (as above). > > > > 3. Internet modem or gateway. > > > > 4. Router and/or routing software. > > > > 5. Any other devices we should know about. > > > > 6. Distances between devices. > > 1. ThinkPad T43 [https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd012235] > 2. ThinkPad R61 [https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd013965] > 3. N/A > 4. TBD > 5. none > 6. < 1 ft.
Are you not on the Internet at all? I thought that your Windows computer did have a *limited* connection, at which rate you must have a modem of some kind, albeit possibly internal. Lisi
