10.7: Re-install from restore partition in a manual IP environment
This small hint may be of some help when you have to reinstall Lion from a recovery partition in a network environment that does not have an active DHCP server. In this case, a small intervention in the Terminal is required.
Once you've booted into the Recovery partition, open Terminal by clicking its icon in the Utilities menu. Then:
- Get a list of the network interfaces for the Mac you are installing Lion on: networksetup -listallnetworkservices
- Set up the network interface, as listed by the output of the command mentioned above (Ethernet or otherwise): networksetup -setmanual {INTERFACE NAME} {IP ADDRESS} {SUBNET MASK} {ROUTER}
- Set the name (DNS) servers: networksetup -setdnsservers {YOUR DNS SERVER}
- Verify that the changes have been correctly saved: ifconfig Examine all the entries and find the one yo ...
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