Thanks for the info,
In the end I opted for the total destruction option, and just reformatted and installed System 7.1. There were no real incidents of note during this process, other than the fact that after 7.1 had fully installed and rebooted, that when booting from the HD, the same dialog of "7.1 is not supported on this model" came up.. and I rebooted from the Disk tools disk, and copied Enabler 401 onto the system folder of the HD. That did the trick and now it's booting into 7.1 nicely.
Next step is to get the ethernet working - I installed the asante drivers for the card. Amazing that they have so many legacy drivers still on their website! Also installed open transport 1.1.2. Now to find some internet tools such as ping,telnet, etc for system 7.1. Any pointers on that?
Thanks..
In the end I opted for the total destruction option, and just reformatted and installed System 7.1. There were no real incidents of note during this process, other than the fact that after 7.1 had fully installed and rebooted, that when booting from the HD, the same dialog of "7.1 is not supported on this model" came up.. and I rebooted from the Disk tools disk, and copied Enabler 401 onto the system folder of the HD. That did the trick and now it's booting into 7.1 nicely.
Next step is to get the ethernet working - I installed the asante drivers for the card. Amazing that they have so many legacy drivers still on their website! Also installed open transport 1.1.2. Now to find some internet tools such as ping,telnet, etc for system 7.1. Any pointers on that?
Thanks..