Tiger Clean Install

Hi,

it's quite easy to do. If you don't have the manual anymore, you can find it here http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/

'Erase and Install' is the option you should use to completely erase all the content of the harddisk and install Tiger fresh.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545?viewlocale=en_US

Regards

Stefan

When selling a computer it is a good idea to secure erase the hard drive. A normal erase just removes reference to files on the drive but does not actually delete the data (it just marks the space as available for future data storage). It is possible to recover the files using readily available software. Here are instructions on partitioning (you don't need to do this) and formatting a drive (which also erases it). There's a button to select security options in the formatting window of Disk Utility. Writing free space with zeros once should be adequate unless you really stored incredibly sensitive data on this computer. Writing zeros can take a long time and if you select the highest option you may have to wait several days for your computer to do it!

[Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard|http://www.kenstone.net/fcp homepage/partitioningtiger.html]

[Journaling, Zeroing, Partitioning & OS 9 driver|http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084]

[Kappy's extensive hard drive formatting post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8340551]

[BDaqua's Formatting instructions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8901255]

This is a nice "all-in-one" article:
[How To Prepare a Mac For Sale|http://hivelogic.com/articles/how-to-prepare-a-mac-for-sale]

Hold the Option key down at bootup, does the Install Disc show as a boot choice?

Is this a Wireless Keyboard?

Might you have Firmware protection turned on?

Firmware password protection in Mac OS X ...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352

It would block usage of all the startup keys, like C, N, T, D, CMD+s, CMD Option+pr, CMD +v, Option, and Shift.

Ah, yes, USB won't work at all for PPC Macs if that's the connection method, and some FW ones aren't bootable.

If you have a FW cable, put this install Disc in the other Mac, boot the other Mac into FireWire target disk mode...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

Boot this one with the Option key held down, wait for the Install Disc in the ither one to show up as a boot choice.