Help with the DMG file!!!!

[Leonis]

I just download couple of DMG image files but I was doing this under OS 9

Now I boot back to X and try to use them but Disk Copy reports "unable to mount the image"

What can I do????? Help....

[ulrik]

I can't help you, all I can say is that 50% of all .dmg files I download of the "net" (or say, Hotline, Caracho) are corrupted. I never managed to fix one. Often, people are taking a .dmg file, "destroy" it in ResEdit or a Hexeditor, name it to something an Hotline or Caracho admin wants (read: the latest apps) and upload it to get download rights. These files are often damaged or something completely different than you hoped to get.

[seamusmh]

I had a similar problem in 10.0.4 where I could never mount dmg files in diskcopy for some unknown reason it always turned up an error. I remember hearing other people with the same problem, and I think it was a known issue between os 9.2.1, classic and 10.0.4 depending on where the files were downloaded.

You have two options. Sometimes toast can mount images that disk copy cannot. Simply drag the disk image onto toast and it will give you options if successful. I like mounting images via stuffit menubar the best, since it never verifies the image. They mount much quicker.

BTW, i've downloaded my share of crap from hotline and carracho, but find that seriously hacked image files are rare, very rare. Most things should mount from one of these programs, if not everything.

Luck,

Seamus

[edX]

not clear if this is what you are already doing or not but i have gotten several img files that do not load when clicked upon. 99% of these have mounted successfully when i open disk copy and drag the file to its box. today i did this with one that the dz file had to be saved as a link which showed on the desktop with the browser's icon. I had to drop this on stuffit expander rather than click. the img file then showed as text icon. I dropped it on disc copy and voila - a perfect mount. file works as expected.

[jimr]

could have been made by shrinkwrap or even diskcopy with compressed images give me the same problems.

the disk verifies OK but claims to not have a mountable partition or simply not readable.

in some rare case, it could be just mis-application of the hdiutils application.
and a thoroughly unusable block of data has been created.

see the command line hdiutils

for some information

man hdiutils
you can make and convert images.... maybe a few advanced issues which you cannot get from the
Diskcopy.

otherwise flipp back to OS9 and try shrinkwrap...

also, use a hex edititor and try to find out which app really created it.