On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM, unix_fan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > If you are doing enterprise Mac OS X deployments you probably don't want to be imaging off of the base images Apple provides. You probably want to create custom NetRestore or NetInstall images [1]. These images would be served off your internal servers (no external internet needed), kick the install off by netbooting the Macs. It's easiest to create and deploy the images from an OS X Server, but you should be able to use any DHCP and HTTP server to deploy. I haven't done this since Tiger and Leopard, but I don't think the fundamentals have changed. If you are a Linux/Unix shop, you might like to manage the OS X desktops with configuration management (like Puppet). And deploy software with Munki [2] (and Simian [3]). Sorry, I can't help with the proxy stuff, my experience has been that the system-wide HTTP proxy settings work well under Mac OS X, but I don't know about Lion Internet Recovery. [1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4746 [2] http://code.google.com/p/munki/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/simian/ -Anton
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