Giving Away Old Laptop--How to do Clean Install

Hi everyone!
I'm giving my old iBook G4 to my bf's mom, and want to do a clean install (still have all disks and such). Can I just use the 3 install disks and go for it, or is there something else I should do?

bahamutangel, welcome to Apple Discussions.
If you have erased the hard drive, that's the way to go. There's some useful info on this link. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070507084548849
 Cheers, Tom

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