9.2 and clean HD.

Well, lucky me: I picked up in garage sale $99.00 iMac G3, Graphite version. NO DISKs. And it had 9.1 on it. Also CD burder. Great for kids.
I took advice on this board and picked up an Mac OS 9.2.1 disk (white, with the big gold '9') on it. I sucessfully upgraded to 9.2.1. Next thing, I guess, is get to highest version of 9.2.?? (which I could maybe use some help with if anyone can point me to link here).
BUT MY Q: I could not figure out how to use the 9.2.1 disk to do a complete clean resintall of the HD. Do I need something else? I wish to erase all the prev. owners stuff, and start with a minty fresh and clean HD, with 9.2.X.
how to do??
AND: if I do this, will it include a browser so I can log on? It occured to me, that a totally clean install might leave me with no applications to get on the web!
Jon

Hi, Jon -
Q: I could not figure out how to use the 9.2.1 disk to do a complete clean resintall of the HD. Do I need something else? I wish to erase all the prev. owners stuff, and start with a minty fresh and clean HD, with 9.2.X.
Provided that disk is a full-install disk (there were a few OS 9.2.1 update-only disks shipped with white labels & gold 9 - as I recall, those came with one of the early retail OSX packages, perhaps OSX 10.1) you should be able to do that.
The full-install retail OS 9.2.1 Install CD (in North American English) has an Apple part number of 691-3334-A - that number can be found underneath the text block on the left side of the label.
To do a thorough erase of the drive -
Boot to the CD (insert it, restart, immediately press the C key, keep it held down until you know it has started to boot to the CD; be patient - it takes a lot longer to boot to a CD than to a hard drive). Then run Drive Setup - it can be found in the Utilities folder on the CD. Select zero-all-data from the Initialization Options item in the Functions menu, then click the Initialize button.
This will take a while - about one hour per each 10GB of drive size.
Select Mac OS Extended as the format when asked.
Using Drive Setup
To install the OS -
After the drive has been wiped, and while still booted to the CD, run the installer program on the CD - Mac OS Install. Follow the prompts and accept the default installation.
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If you do not want to erase everything on the drive, you can do a Clean Install of just the OS instead. A Clean Install will remove nothing; it will install a brand new, 'clean' System Folder, will rename the old one to Previous System Folder, and (in this instance) will not do much else.
Article #58176 - Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9: Performing a Clean Installation

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