[G4] new Dual startup disk woes

[Dieder Bylsma]

>Hi All,
>I just got my new Dual 1gig G4, and I want to reformat the drive, 
>but lo and behold, in the collection of CDs that came with the 
>computer, there does not seem to be a single one to use as a startup 
>disk in order to get this done! I am losing it. In fact, I guess I 
>don't even know how to reformat a disk in OS X. Do I have to startup 
>from my OS 9 disk to do this? How annoying.

start up with the first disk, the 'installer' disk for MacOS X.

Instead of clicking on the 'install' option

go for the file menu

choose:

Disk Utility

and then partition/reformat as you please

hope this helps,


Dieder