Help on wiping a mac's drive clean!!

[MaRXeDES]

hey...i've just bought an imac G3 graphite 600MHz as a second computer. It has both OS 9 and OS X v10.0 installed on it. I need instructions on how to completely remove everything from the hard drive and starting out with a clean install of OS X v10.3. I got the installation discs from an ibook which i bought a couple of years ago...Any help would be appreciated!!

Thankx!

 

[stevep]

You'd normally put the install disc in the optical drive and just boot from it, (do a restart and hold the C key down) and then choose Erase and Install from the list of options. I think you'll have a bit of a problem if your install disc is from an iBook though, as the disc is obviously specific to that machine, not the g3 iMac. There might be a way round it, but none that I know offhand and I can't be bothered to Google it - you can do that for yourself anyway.
The easy way out is to buy a full retail copy of 10.3 from fleabay or Craigs.

 

[MuzikListner]

Delete any personal data then restart with the installation disk in. when it asks you to install chose, i think its called, erase and install if it not erase and install the option will be obvious, when installed go to disk utility under applications/utilities. click on macintosh HD or whatever your hd is called and select erase free space under the erase tab and select zero out deleted files.

 

[MaRXeDES]

oh man

oh man.....pls anyone who knows how to install it from my ibook discs help me!!

 

[Blue Velvet]

oh man.....pls anyone who knows how to install it from my ibook discs help me!!

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