Start up disk for Macintosh Plus

I need to make a start up disk for a Macintosh Plus I recently acquired. I have a Mac Classic that works. I have tried copying the System and Finder files onto a floppy using the Classic but I always get the message that the files are too large to fit on the floppy disk. What files are essential to a start up disk? Can I actually make one for the plus that will fit on one disk? I am using system 6.x. Thanks for your help.
Stu

Stu,
First of all, remember that the Macintosh Plus only can handle 800K Mac floppies (DSDD/2DD), while the Macintosh Classic is capable of using 1.44 MB (HD). It is possible to format/write/read 800K disks on the Classic.
If necessary, you can find 800 K disk images containing system disks at the Apple download site. However, these are in a MacBinary format (.bin) that has to be decoded (via an appropriate version of StuffIt Expander or StuffIt) on a suitable Mac. The disk images then have to be written to floppies by Disk Copy 4.2 (here).
Jan

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