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.

 

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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

Have you tried skipping the checksum check? Does he have enough free space on the HD?

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.