Erasing a PowerBook's boot drive?

[Gregor Alessi]

Hi Roland

On 27.04.2007, at 17:45, 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?

As soon as you've started up from CD and chosen the language, there's  
the Utility menu in the menu bar, which gives you Disk Utility.app  
amongst others.

Regards

Gregor