Hell has frozen over (maybe the heat is just leaking out all over Chicago?) and
we are allowing some small number of Macs in at work. One at a time.
I've been tasked with crafting a reasonably secure bare metal install guide for
MacOSX Lion. As Lion folks know, there is no longer distributed media. If you
want to start at a traditional bare metal "grab the OS vendor media" step, it
involves downloading from the Apple server cloud.
One of the options I'm writing up is to leverage the builtin "Lion Recovery HD"
step described here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
In that same doc, Apple claims they don't support proxies. After removing my
palm from my forehead, and doing some research, I cam across methods that
involve setting up the proxy parameters using the built in "networksetup"
command in Terminal, then continuing with the "Reinstall MacOSX step". For
example, here:
http://www.mactasia.co.uk/lion-recovery-through-a-proxy
All the successes I find though involve using Wi-Fi, not Ethernet, and the
latter is what I want tioo use for a more secure initial step. I can prove to
myself that I've set the parameters correctly for http and https. After I exit
Terminal and go back to the "Mac OS X Utilities" screen, I leverage "Get Help
Online". The latter simply brings up Safari. I can then go to external http
and https sites without issue, proving to me those proxy values I set in
Terminal are working. However, whether using networksetup, or setting
environment vars like http_proxy and ftp_proxy, the "Reinstall Mac OS X" step
still claims it can't get to whatever is the underlying site it wants.
Before I dive deeper into this black box, has anyone here successfully figured
out what site (and protocol used) the Reinstall step wants?
Also note that I'm using Ethernet, not Wi-Fi, as the access medium, and my
networksetup commands reflect that.
Thanks for your time. I'll readily admit only performing sysadmin on my home
MacOSX boxen, and none of those have Lion yet.
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