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

Sep 09, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

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:


[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. The man page for networksetup provides more information on the available options.]

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