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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Hackintosh Pluses and System 7.0
Keywords: Hackintosh, System 7.0, Appletalk
Message-ID: <14055@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:27:52 GMT
References: <13427@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <13427@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> hpa@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu ( Dameon Welch ) writes:
> 
>Steve Meyer <G7D7K9@IRISHMVS.CC.ND.EDU> offers this method:
> 
>> file.  I think the reason I was getting this message was that the
>> AppleTalk driver was looking for an AppleTalk port, which it would have
>> found if my machine had been a "real" MacPlus, but because my machine
>> was originally a 512E it wasn't finding such a port and the

512Ke's have an AppleTalk port.

I think the problem is that 512Ke's are missing the extended parameter RAM
and the system stores the current AppleTalk link protocol ID (ie, LocalTalk,
EtherTalk, TokenTalk, ...) in PRAM.  

>Personally, I prefer method 2 because it appears that you can still use
>Appletalk, whereas with method 1 (removing the Appletalk Driver), you
>can not.

That's probably the best approach.  

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)