CD tray broken-can I erase disk via another computer?

My old 233 has a broken tray, but otherwise still works fine. A non-profit wants it but I am afraid to give it away without it being erased. Could I somehow ethernet it to my other G3 (running Panther), load the original restore cd from the 233 in it and mount the disk on the older one?
Also, once I do that I want to clean the iMac500 to give away/sell. Is the preferred method to use the original restore disks, then install Panther? It came with OSX and 9.2 disks.
Thanks, as always.
iMac 500 Indigo July '01    

1. Unfortunately you can't erase the hard drive on the iMac 233 because you must use that hard drive as a boot drive in order to supply the network drive to another machine - and a Mac won't allow you to overwrite it's own start-up disk. So the options include:
Erase all your data as normal and then create a large innocuous file and duplicate this until the drive is full, then delete these files. This is a very crude way of overwriting the erased data.
Remove the hard disk and erase it in another computer.
Find an external USB CD Drive.
2. For the iMac 500MHz just boot from the disk choose Disk Utility with the Installer and do a Zero-All-Data (or for even more protection the 7-Way-Random data write) and then do and Erase and Install. You can then use Pacfist to extract the free software included with the iMac it's OS X Install Disk.
The buyer can re-install OS 9 if they wish.
mrtotes

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