alibertiw01: 10.7: Re-install from restore partition in a manual IP environment

Monday, 12 September 2011

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 ...