I believe that I booted from an older livecd that did work, then I mounted my hard disk in that running instance and used chroot to go into the hard disk filesystem and ran apt-get from there. Something like this:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydrive cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/mydrive/etc/resolv.conf chroot /mnt/mydrive apt-get update apt-get upgrade -- Gutsy cannot get IP using DHCP on wired network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120298 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
