Brian Cluff last wrote (in part):
> If boot disks or other hard drives are working, you could try booting
> into one of those and then mounting your root file system ...

Each time I have tried starting the system, it would get as far as the
Mint GUI login screen, but then when I logged in, it all crashed.

So, this last time, instead of logging in, I did CTL+ALT+F2 to switch to
a non-GUI screen and from there I am able to get to the command line; and
as far as I can tell all of my home directories and files are still
intact.  So, I tried to rsync those files to my two laptops, but it seems
I do not have an Internet connection from this computer. This at risk
computer is ethernet-wire connected to my router.

How can I establish an Internet connection from the command line?

If I could do that, then I could rsync/copy my most recent work onto my
two laptops and avoid losing any data.




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> ... chrooting to
> the mount and then reloading everything that is complaining on boot.
> I usually find I have to do the following mounts to get packages to
> install correctly in a chroot environment.
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
> mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
>
> cd /mnt
> chroot .
>
> Of course you will need to mount any extra partitions you might have
> your drive sliced into. The above assumes everything is on one big
> partition.
>
> If your hard drive is dying, this won't do you any good, or at best,
> will just buy you a little time before a catastrophic failure takes
> everything with it.



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