Erasing a PowerBook's boot drive?

[Scott Anguish]

On Apr 27, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Roland Torres wrote:

> A friend of mine is going to sell her 12" PowerBook. She wants to  
> make sure that none of her own information or data is retrievable on  
> the boot drive, so she wants to wipe it and reinstall 10.3 on it.  
> I'm thinking that the only way to do this is to boot from an  
> external drive, and then use Disk Utility to wipe (multiple-pass  
> erase) the main drive. Will this work? Is there a way to boot from  
> one of the install CDs and do the same thing?
>

	I think 10.3 supported this. I know 10.4 does if you want to use it  
for the erase.

	Boot from the install CD, then there is a menu item that allows you  
to pick things like Disk Utility..

	and it takes FOREVER.