rockthemike Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I have my dmg file here, ilife06installdvd.dmg its the correct file size, according to torrent sites. when i try to open with disk image mounter it says the following disk image failed to mount.. not recognized. anyone know a way to get around this? is the file just corrupt? right now its located on an external drive so I'm copying it to the partition that OS X is on.. any tips would be great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 i'm not sure why it is not opening, but I don't think it would even run on 10.4.1. I HIGHLY recommend that you upgrade to at least 10.4.3 before trying to use iLife. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-110941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 10, 2006 Author Share Posted May 10, 2006 i have all the app support files and loops and everything on my computer but the file isnt in applications. is there any way someone can just send me the executable app file? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-110963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodar Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 i have an idea to get it working, as i have done it to run other programs in which i havent had the correct version. Right click (control click) on the app and press show contents (or something like that, i've booted in windows at the moment, so i cant tell you exactly). Anyway, after doing this, open info.plist with textedit. Find where it says what version of operating system required, and change it to suit you. Save. The run the program. Hopefully that will work. If you cant even install it, you may need to edit the .pkg file, deleting some -----check files and edit some parts. Let me know how you go Rhodar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 i cant even open or mount the dmg file, it just gives me an error. its not hte programs in ilife that wont work but rather its the install file that wont open i tried copying the garageband loops and app support files from a friends computer as well as teh app itself but when i tried to run garageband it just got stuck on initializing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodar Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 if you cant mount the dmg file, its likely it is currupt.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 according to the torrent sites, its the correct size. im wondering if its because im using 10.4.1 that im having trouble with certain things such as quark 7 beta, mobilepre usb and now ilife the problem is im at school for another 2 weeks and they block torrents on campus so i could never get an updated image file to get to 10.4.5 or 6 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sould Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Try to access the dmg with pacifist. maybe you can access the ilife dmg wih this great little application. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 no such luck. pacifist just tries to load the dmg and the spinwheel comes up but nothing happens Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodar Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 there is a little trick i used once, i had a currupt .dmg file, i was just stuffing around with it, quite frustrated actually, but i renamed the file so it believed itself to be a .app file (in the get info screen) then i dragged this file into stuffit expander, and it created me a new .dmg file, which worked perfectly... Not sure if it will work for you... but if it does dont ask me why or how it worked because i honestly dont know. ....strange... but yeh, give it a go Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 12, 2006 Author Share Posted May 12, 2006 renamed as an app, the icon now has a O with a slash through it over it.. like a no smoking sign. When i try to open it it stuffit it doestn work and when i try to run it it says its not supported by this architecture Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 if you try to move a .dmg file on an NTFS partition, it causes .dmg corruption which is usually the cause of mounting errors (its happened to me). i would recommend trying to zip the file in windows and then transferring it to your mac partition although there is no guarantee that it will fix the problem. Whenever you try to transfer a .dmg from one location to another on an NTFS (or from NTFS partition 1 -> NTFS partition 2) you have to zip or archive the file in some way. Hope it helps P.S.: From what I know, 10.4.1's support for unibin is lousy so either change the system version in SystemVerison.plist (/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/SystemVersion.plist) or upgrade to a newer version. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-111870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSpaces Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 i did change the system version no apps would run itunes would crash-when i right click to open with you know what finder would reload-ichaning the system version is not good unstable nothing works' Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-112896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Even if you did get the installer to run, iLife needs a kernel from 10.4.3 or later. Back when people were only able to run 10.4.1 (before Maxxuss), people were coming up with ways of running programs compiled for 10.4.2. By the time apps began to be compiled for 10.4.3 only, Maxxuss had showed up and... well. The rest is history. In laymen's terms: Unless you want to create your own hybrid kernel, you need to upgrade! 10.4.1 won't cut it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-112930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockthemike Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 thanks anyone... now would anyone be able to help me figure out how to get my m-audio mobile pre usb to work? It works fine when I boot into windows but even with the drivers installed in OS X it won't work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17168-ilife-06-in-1041/#findComment-113306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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