Formatting HD from install DVD

Is there a way to format a HD from the install disc? I've found an old WD (13GB) HD I would like to use in my B/W G3 rev 1 Power Mac.
I'd planned to remove the old 6GB drive and put the 13GB in and then install 10.3 or .4 but I need to format it as it was in an old windows PC.
Thanks.

It is a good idea to format a re-purposed IDE/ATA drive using the "Zero All Data" option (formerly "Write Zeroes" option). This writes known good data into every block, and allows the drive controller to substitute spare blocks for any found defective.
The process may take several hours, and if your Mac goes to sleep while it is running, it may fail. Occasionally it may fail if a bad block was found and the spare block substituted is also bad. The solution is to run it again.
When completed without error, you are assured that every block can be read and written without error.

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[Apple docs: What's a kernel panic? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227]
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