Thank you guys. Your words of wisdom have saved a Classic from the bin. I ran Disk Tools and formatted the drive. System 7 is now installed and it boots from the HD.
For information's sake, I used the original floppy that kept giving Error 41 - all went fine until I installed the "print" disk; it came up as being labeled wrong or something and so did the "tidbits" disk. No big deal I guess, I'll never hook it to a printer and at least it boots up now.
For information's sake, I used the original floppy that kept giving Error 41 - all went fine until I installed the "print" disk; it came up as being labeled wrong or something and so did the "tidbits" disk. No big deal I guess, I'll never hook it to a printer and at least it boots up now.