Mac Mini 1.42 Erasure problems

Okay, I wanted to sell my old Mac Mini, as I have recently bought my new iMac. As any smart computer person would, I wanted to securely erase all my personal data from the 80 Gig hard drive. I used my install disk to access disk utility. I decided upon the 7-time wipe under my security options and proceeded to erase the drive. It looked as if it might take a while, so I turned off my monitor and left it to its business. I came back to it only to find that there was an error that said the operation timed out. The problem is that now I have no volume to mount from the HD. The HD is visible, but I cannot mount it, nor can I erase it again to start over. I cannot partition it and I cannot install the OS. I can only boot from the disk and that's all it lets me do! HELP!!!

Hi.
In Disk Utility, rather than Erase, have you tried re-formatting? Try selecting Partition, in Options choose Apple Partition Map (for PowerPC Mac), and in the Format field, Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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