Deleting music from friend's iPod

A colleague of mine gave me his iPod to add some music to it from my computer.   He told me to first delete all the stuff on the iPod, and then he wants me to put some of my stuff onto it.
So I plugged his iPod into my computer, which opened up iTunes.   Then the computer asked me if I wanted to "sync" his iPod to my computer.   I then recalled that you can't just use an iPod on a different computer than what it's used to.    Something about having to erase everything that's on the iPod so it can then be synced to the new computer (in this case, mine).
So that sounded fine to me, since getting rid of his old stuff is what he wants me to do anyway.   But then I got a message saying that once I start the "sync," not only will it erase the contents of the iPod, but it will then add my entire music library to the iPod, which is NOT what I want to do. I simply want to erase his iPod, and then, one at a time, add new tracks to it using my computer.   And I haven't even put most of those tracks on my computer yet.
Can someone please help me? Thanks.

Hi all,
Just a clarification on the Maunal Sync that bwhite has explained:
bwhite62 wrote:
It MAY still make you erase the music that’s already there (I’m sorry, I just can’t remember right now), it won't - once you say No to the Erase and Sync, the device profile screens display, and you can check Manual Sync as bwhite has indicated.
but after that, you should be able to connect to any iTunes and pick the songs you want from the library and drag it onto the iPod. The Manual Sync selected for the device on that computer will apply only to that computer. Each different computer that you hook it up to has to have the device profile set up for that computer. This design allows you to have different profiles for different computers. For example, on my husband's Macbook Pro, we have our devices set up to sync to everything but Photos, since that is where our iTunes library lives. On my Macbook Air, we have our devices set up to only sync with photos, since that is where our iPhoto library lives....
Cheers,
GB

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