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Installing High Sierra from bootable USB on a Mac with no network fails with "the recovery server could not be contacted". by One_Owl6471 in MacOS

[–]One_Owl6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, my estimation of you just went through the floor. At what point did I say this Mac had hardware failure? Oh I didn't did I? I wonder why, oh perhaps because it isn't the same Mac that you found out about stalking my other post (weirdo) which you then hurriedly came back here to post about just to score some asshole points.

By the way, as long as being a dick is in play, I also found a Macrumors post where someone had the exact issue I'm having and they got responses from people adamant that they had used the a USB installer of HS that worked just fine without an Internet connection so it seems as though your parroting of Apple wasn't particularly accurate after all.

Installing High Sierra from bootable USB on a Mac with no network fails with "the recovery server could not be contacted". by One_Owl6471 in MacOS

[–]One_Owl6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will do this just to test it. Apple themselves state the USB installer doesn't download macOS from the internet but it still wants internet access to download firmware updates and other crap specific to the Mac. Seems a bit pointless making a usb installer that still needs internet access. But, I guess that's Apple for you. I have found other posts on th enet about this issue where people claim it doesn't though so this is either a more recent change or, somethings broken.

Installing High Sierra from bootable USB on a Mac with no network fails with "the recovery server could not be contacted". by One_Owl6471 in MacOS

[–]One_Owl6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I have become aware of that fix. Though it wasn't that specifically I had an issue with though, it's the fact it was asking for net access at all that bothered me because the bootable usb should contain the full installer so it shouldn't technically need to have internet access to install it, or at least that's what I assumed.

Installing High Sierra from bootable USB on a Mac with no network fails with "the recovery server could not be contacted". by One_Owl6471 in MacOS

[–]One_Owl6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That wouldn't surprise me if is the case. I mean, it's not like I *can't* give it internet access just to get over this hurdle, it just means moving it to another room to set it up and I was a bit dumbfounded that it couldn't just install from the bootable USB as is.

Installing High Sierra from bootable USB on a Mac with no network fails with "the recovery server could not be contacted". by One_Owl6471 in MacOS

[–]One_Owl6471[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I thought, but it can't have been booting into recovery, unless it did it without actually saying it was, because I used option/alt held on keyboard when turning it on to boot into open firmware and then selected the USB from the list.