On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote:
I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's.
This doesn't make sense because writing all 0's is wiping the hard drive. You meant you wrote all zeros and wiped the HD.
Now I can't reload an operating system.
I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader.
I want to reload Mac OS10.3.2 Panther & then OSX10.4 Tiger, both of which I have.
You don't need to reinstall Panther unless your 10.4 DVD is an "upgrade" DVD? Even then, you could convert the upgrade DVD into a full install DVD and skip the Panther, but that may be too much work.
Boot either install DVD. Go to Disk Utility and "Partition" the HD into one partition with the Option of "Apple Partition Format" and "HFS + extended (journaled)" file system. Then quit Disk Utility and run the installer normally. If you can't boot the DVD from the internal optical drive, to boot from an external Firewire you can hold the Option key while the external is powered up with the DVD in the unit already. If you're trying to boot from USB this probably won't work on a PPC PowerBook, USB booting is generally Intel only and early colored iBooks and iMacs.
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