"error 95" "no mountable file systems" is the error message and searching with Google on that pair of strings generates a bunch of postings and links to Apple knowledge-base offerings which explain that it's a known bug which "sometimes" can be fixed. It's found on 10.3 and 10.4
On 6/24/09, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> posted on this list about a camera with a similar error message. The machine is a Sawtooth G4 that I bought new. It has four monitors connected on ATI PCI cards. The first system on it was OS 9. Last week I had a disk die and my CCC copy was on a 9 GiB partition, on another disk, that wouldn't run properly because there wasn't enough space on the disk for a swap file. It did work but slow as molasses in January. I decided it had been long enough and used original OS 10.3.0 disks to do a fresh install on a fresh new 80 GiB disk. The installer took me to an update site for a compound update to 10.3.9 which I allowed to happen. On first startup I was sent to another compound security update which I also downloaded and ran the update from its .dmg file. I then copied some, but not all, of the huge amount of data and applications from the backup disk. The only user was me with administrator privileges. My reason for staying with 10.3.9 is that I want to continue using my SE/30 file server that requires AppleTalk with AFS and ethernet. I enabled that and reset my default shell to tcsh using netinfo manager. Things went well for a couple of days while I did maintenance I should have been doing for years. Probably 80% of my working files were discarded to be recoverable from CD-ROM if I ever really want them again. I had no trouble connecting to my SE/30 file server. But. One piece of software I use - The Osmond printed circuit board CAD tool - was re-issued and I chose to install that from a newly downloaded .dmg file. When I tried to mount the dmg file I got the error on the first line of this posting. I soon discovered that I could not mount ANY dmg files, newly downloaded or from backup disks. They would mount easily on the lady's new X.6 iMac. After a couple of days on the web and performing a dozen or so recommendations including AppleJack, emptying system caches, and editing the /etc/hostconfig file I was getting really upset. Today I set up a new user with no privileges and had him try mounting a dmg file. No problem. A simple double click did it all. But my administrator account still can't do it! Am I going stark raving mad? -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
