Reinstall os x through a proxy

[RichB]

Can this be done?

 

It asks to connect to the internet, all of our connections go through a proxy! and teathering it up to an iphone is way to slow...

[mdench]

Do you have any way of adding an IP based exception to your proxy?

[RichB]

Can have a look... Would rather just throw it out of the window!!!

[mdench]

I know the feeling! If we ever need to reinstall from scratch i wait till after school and add an IP range exception for that VLAN and then re install

[localzuk]

I tried this a while ago, and couldn't find a way around it. I ended up having to do it at home instead...

[CyberNerd]

Can this be done?

 

It asks to connect to the internet, all of our connections go through a proxy! and teathering it up to an iphone is way to slow...

 

I don't think we were able to do it over the internet through a proxy. IIRC we tied it to a specific IP Address and allowed it unfiltered access.

[RichB]

Solved - Made a boot USB using lionmaker, it didnt need the internet to verfiy the install.

 

PERFECT

[kirchie]

I tried this a while ago, and couldn't find a way around it. I ended up having to do it at home instead...

I ended up having to do 22 iMacs at home when they upgraded from SL to Lion. I read on an Apple page that you can't talk to the Apple store servers from behind a proxy at all.

[Marci]

CommandLine is required...

 

1. Connect the machine to the network with a wired connection, turn on the Mac, and hold Cmd+R. Eventually you should arrive at the recovery console

2. Head to Utilities across the top, and choose Terminal.

3. Run the following commands at the bash# prompt:

bash# networksetup -setmanual Ethernet <> <> <>
bash# networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet <> <>
bash# networksetup -setwebproxy Ethernet <> <> authenticated <> <>
bash# networksetup -setsecurewebproxy Ethernet <> <> authenticated <> <>

 

Replace <<...>> with what it says, so (for instance) top line becomes:

 

bash# networksetup -setmanual Ethernet 10.126.168.20 255.255.255.0 10.126.168.1

 

4. Test the network connection by running the following at the bash# prompt:

bash# ping http://www.google.com
bash# ping http://www.apple.com

 

5. If the ping tests return pings successfully, Cmd+Q to quit terminal, and proceed with recovery from the internet.

 

 

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/networksetup.8.html

 

I read on an Apple page that you can't talk to the Apple store servers from behind a proxy at all.

Odd - Apple Store working fine for me right now behind full authenticated proxy on multiple devices.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Marci

[kirchie]

CommandLine is required...

 

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Odd - Apple Store working fine for me right now behind full authenticated proxy on multiple devices.

 

That's dead handy, thank you!

Could be I didn't read the article properly of course

[mezmerrick]

Command line used to work following this: Lion Recovery HD Through A Proxy - Mactasia

 

But now it no longer seems to.

 

Apple documentation does also state that it doesn't support recovery through a proxy: OS X: About OS X Recovery

 

I phoned them, and they also told me the same.

 

Quite surprising really.

[kirchie]

Command line used to work following this: Lion Recovery HD Through A Proxy - Mactasia

 

But now it no longer seems to.

 

Apple documentation does also state that it doesn't support recovery through a proxy: OS X: About OS X Recovery

 

I phoned them, and they also told me the same.

 

Quite surprising really.

 

I knew I'd seen it somewhere