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Hollywood
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 Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:58 am Post subject: No mountable file system. |
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After seeing the download would take days on my dial up I found a helpful hint about a resumable download utility built into Mac X. I had to learn some Terminal stuff but that was a good thing. I was able to download the file over several days using 'curl' which let me resume the download whenever I wanted. When all was done I tried to open the disk image file and I got nothin.' The error tells me there are 'no mountable file systems.' I am pretty sure everything finished OK because I checked the file sizes. What, if anything, can I do now?
I have had this happen before but I just assumed the download was corrupt and gave up. This software is a lot more important and took too much time to give up without a fight.
Thanx
P.S. what is a MD-5 Hash and will it help?
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jjmckenzie51
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:18 am Post subject: Re: No mountable file system. |
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| Hollywood wrote: |
P.S. what is a MD-5 Hash and will it help? |
A MD5 hash is a number computed by the md5sum program at the time a program is created. This is verified by running the same program (md5sum) against the file after it is transmitted to verify that the file was received and not tampered with. I would suggest running this program as admin (sudo md5sum <filename>). The result can be compared to the md5 value posted on the NeoOffice web site.
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pluby
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:07 am Post subject: Re: No mountable file system. |
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| jjmckenzie51 wrote: | | [A MD5 hash is a number computed by the md5sum program at the time a program is created. This is verified by running the same program (md5sum) against the file after it is transmitted to verify that the file was received and not tampered with. I would suggest running this program as admin (sudo md5sum <filename>). The result can be compared to the md5 value posted on the NeoOffice web site. |
FYI. The command is named "md5" on Mac OS X 10.3 and "md5sum" on Mac OS X 10.4. Also, I don't think this command needs to run as admin (at least I have never needed to).
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:56 am Post subject: |
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If you fear the command line (which you shouldn't...) here's a graphical frontend to md5sum. No difference from using the command line versions except it gives you a file dialog to navigate to the file to be checked, which can be helpful if you're not familiar with the concepts of paths and changing directories in a shell:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12550
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