All was going great.

I formatted an HD disk on teh macbook 800K and copied the .image file to it.

Then I covered the HD hole on another HD disk and formatted that 400K on the classic, booted from the ROM.

Then I booted the classic normally, and copied the .image file from teh 800K disk into a folder on teh hard drive.

Last step -- attempt to boot from the rom, use disk copy to copy the 3.2 system to the 400K floppy.

Oh no! the classic will no longer boot from the ROM -- it ignores the key combination, and puts a 'boot disk' icon on the desktop. Click that, and it says it can't open it error -127.

Maybe the system battery?

So close.