Rare Blacksmith

Originally Posted By: Celtic Minstrel And also... why do you need the Terminal to create the disk image? Is Disk Utility not good enough for you? You're right, that probably comes from my personal history as a Unix veteran ;-) Disk Utility does the job perfectly. Anyway you have to use the command line for mounting the image. The image has to be mounted on a path with strictly lowercase characters. The Finder won't do that ...

About a year ago I posted some solution in this forum. But it needs some work in Terminal.app. G5, and now A6 do not run on a case-sensitive disk per se. All new Macs have their disks formatted now case-sensitive, journaled hfs+. The solution is to create an appropriate .dmg file, mount that and install G5 resp. A6 on that. The following commands did work for me. hdiutil create -megabytes 70 -fs HFS+ -volname g5 g5.dmg sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg Then installed Geneforge 5 on g5. That did it. For playing afterwards you just have to mount the .dmg file in Terminal.app. The mounted volume will show up in the finder. sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg Good luck. Edit: for Avernum 6 you will need larger .dmg file, something like that: hdiutil create -megabytes 120 -fs HFS+ -volname a6 a6.dmg

Finally got a solution, used hdiutil to create a small mountable volume and mounted that on path with all lowercase. Thanks for the hint Khoth ! hdiutil create -megabytes 70 -fs HFS+ -volname g5 g5.dmg sudo hdiutil mount -mountroot /mnt g5.dmg Then installed Geneforge 5 on g5. That did it.

Hmm, forcing mount on /mnt didn't help, investigating further

subject says it all .. is there any chance to get Geneforge 5 running on a case-sensitive disk ? I would have no problem with mass-renaming files or the like, if it would help. Edit: I had a similar problem with Eschalon, where it helped to run the program directly from the .dmg without installing. This does not help with Geneforge 5 ...