Ubuntu
friendly-recovery package

  1. Bug #244885
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 244885

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James Burkle (james-burkle) wrote : Re: Network not available in Hardy Heron 8.04

Greetings

@Michael Vogt

I just applied for the ubuntu mentors program, and saw this bug and figured I'd give it a shot. Here is my solution:

I noticed this program supports third party plugins. Specifically, it says to put a script in the folder /usr/share/recovery-mode/options and that the script will show up in the main menu of the recovery screen.
So I created a script that comes up in the recovery screen called netroot which basically starts a /sbin/sulogin, but starts dhclient eth0 before it, to assign your eth0 interface a DHCP address. I tested it a few times and it works, I was able to reach the internet and, more importantly, make apt-get work.

The script is attached, but what do I do now? How do I get this added to the package? Is it good enough, or am I off base here?

Thank you for your time.