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For that matter, it's not too hard to download the Lion installer and burn it to a DVD, which you can then use to wipe/install in the usual
manner.
David Smith From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Billy Vierra [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:33 PM To: 'unix_fan'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] MacOSX Lion through a proxy via Ethernet? Any reason you can’t use the Lion USB drive?: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A
-Billy Vierra
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of unix_fan
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:
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:
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?
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