Irritating Error 95: no mountable file systems

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Hi

Right, I am not a Mac user so bear with me.

I was at a friend's house last night and he has been given a Mac with OSX whatever on it.

He needs Adobe Indesign for his coursework so we downloaded the trial from Adobe's website.

After the download it then proceeded to try and mount the *.dmg file using the built in Disk Copy feature (?). However, right at the end of the mounting, despite verifying the checksum, it comes up with: Error 95: no mountable file systems.

I am at a complete loss. Has anybody a clue what to do? Searches on the internet are not very helpful as apparantly it could be 'a number of things'.

I do not find OSX particularly easy to use so please go easy on me. I also will not be at my firend's place today so I will need to dictate to him down the 'phone.
 
EVH said:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1381

May help.. but then, you really need to find out which version of OS he's got.

It should just mount the .dmg file on the desktop when you double click it :confused:

Have you tried skipping the checksum check? Does he have enough free space on the HD?
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Yes, it fails regardless of if I skip the checksum or not. It also has 16 gig free, so it should be okay.

Will it be possible to download the Mac version on my PC, somehow burn the *.dmg image file to a DVD and then pass that over to him? Or are *.dmg one of those weird, propriety formats?

We can get the PC version working fine on his PC, but he wants it on his Mac.

I have also downloaded Toast and ToastMount but that really confuses me. I have not got a clue what to do there!

I will try that possible workaround you posted.

Thanks.
 
Yes, see this screenshot of "Disk Utility". (Available on every Mac in Applications > Utilities).

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Essentially what you want to do is browse to the .dmg file by clicking on the "image" button next to the "source" box.

Then drag the DVD source from the list on the left in to the "Destination" box.

This tells the Mac that you want to burn the image to the DVD. It's possible using Toast, but I don't have access to it on this machine.

To answer your question, the .dmg format is specific to Mac OS but it's nothing that any basic Mac shouldn't be able open. Think of it as the equivalent of a Windows .ISO file. When you double click it, it should mount on the desktop and from there you can browse the contents in the Finder.

Hope this helps.
 
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