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Genie installer - no mountable file systems
Dear community, I downloaded the Netgear Genie app for my OS X but an error shows when trying to open it, saying: "no mountable file systems". I downloaded a few times, same happens. My OS ...
> https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1404147
More informative:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/td-p/1402544
Although the NETGEAR Community SEARCH feature remains entirely
useless, Google found the above thread using the following search terms:
site:community.netgear.com mac genie "no mountable file systems"
I avoid the Genie apps, so "Home Networking Apps" is not a forum
which I follow. Almost all my Mac hardware is too old for support by
High Sierra (10.12), so I seldom worry about it, but I can confirm that
that "NETGEARGenieInstaller.dmg" does contain an APFS disk image, and it
is mountable on a High Sierra system (10.12.6, in my case). So, not
corrupt, only unsuitable for many users.
If you have access to a High Sierra system, then you should be able
to get to the "NETGEAR_Genie_Installer_2.4.26(2017-9-27).pkg" file
inside that ".dmg" file, and copy it to an older system using any
reasonable method. I haven't tried to install it anywhere, so no bets
on that.
Possibly interesting:
> [...] High Sierra (10.12), [...]
Correction: 10.12 is plain-old "Sierra". 10.13 is "High Sierra".
As the Wikipedia article says, High Sierra (10.13) s required for
full support of APFS, but the limited APFS support in Sierra (10.12.6,
in my case) let me mount "NETGEARGenieInstaller.dmg". I don't know how
far back on Sierra (10.12.x) you can go and still have this work.
In any case, distributing software this way is crippling for users
with (not-much-)older systems (like, say, 10.11.x (El Capitan) and
earlier).