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lal_truckee - 06 May 2004 00:07 GMT

I wanted to try thunderbird-0.6-macosx, but have been having difficulties.
I can download thunderbird-0.6-macosx.dmg.gz, and unzip it; but
thunderbird-0.6-macosx.dmg fails to mount. The message is "no mountable
file systems"

I thought maybe it was just the release version, so I tried downloading
a nightly, and had the same problem.

This is a G5/OSX10.3.

Has anyone else seen this? Solved the problem?

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Geoffrey Carman - 06 May 2004 15:33 GMT

> I wanted to try thunderbird-0.6-macosx, but have been having difficulties.
> I can download thunderbird-0.6-macosx.dmg.gz, and unzip it; but
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>
> Has anyone else seen this? Solved the problem?

I had this problem with the last release of FireFox. It just went away
after a few days, and suddenly I could mount it. Wierd as all get out!

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Kenneth Browne - 11 May 2004 03:48 GMT

> I wanted to try thunderbird-0.6-macosx, but have been having difficulties.
> I can download thunderbird-0.6-macosx.dmg.gz, and unzip it; but
> thunderbird-0.6-macosx.dmg fails to mount. The message is "no mountable
> file systems"

I downloaded it about five times and it appeared to decompress but i
couldn't find an installer afterward. I found another decompression
program (MacGzip) which worked flawlessly. Aladdin didn't work I'm
guessing because gzip is a compression format not handled by Stuffit.

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peter breugle - 01 Jun 2004 17:02 GMT

I have had no problem with the DMG, but I know that stuffit had an
interim release at some point. You might check that you have the latest
version. Also I have seen some GZ's that would not unpack without the
most recent TAR. Check your version's on both.

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lal_truckee - 02 Jun 2004 22:39 GMT

>> I wanted to try thunderbird-0.6-macosx, but have been having
>> difficulties.
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> version. Also I have seen some GZ's that would not unpack without the
> most recent TAR. Check your version's on both.

I don't know what fixed it - I was trying alot of stuff, including a OS
X update somewhere in there; but it just started to uncompress and
mount. As near as I can tell, the images are the same as before, when it
wouldn't mount; I'd suspect an OS issue if I didn't know Apple only
released perfect OS versions ...

Thanks

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