Need Help Reformatting Leopard on Imac

Hey guys,
I sold my Imac so i am wanting to do a clean install of Leo for the new owner and to get my stuff off it. I have everything backed up and was about to do the reformatting but I have 3 discs and not sure which to do first. I have the two discs (one that says Disc 1 and the other that says Disc 2) but my confusion is the Leopard "CPU Drop in DVD"... what do I do with that one? Do I use it for something first or is that just a tutorial of Leopard?
thanks
jared

If you have a +CPU Drop In+ Leopard disc, your Mac probably came with Tiger pre-installed. So the Disc 1 and 2 set are your Tiger discs.
If you want to install Leopard for the new owner, you should be able to use the +CPU Drop In+ Leopard disc to do it. However, if you erase the drive securely first (to remove your personal data), it may not allow you to re-install Leopard directly on an empty drive; it may look for an existing system (that's the main difference between that disc and a retail Leopard installation disc). But you can try it; once you get into Installer, it may let you do whatever you want. So insert the Leopard disc and start up from it.
To clear off your personal data securely, when you get to the first Installer screen, go up to the menu bar and select to run Disk Utility from under the Utilities menu. In Disk Utility, select the internal drive in the sidebar (be sure to select the DRIVE and not the volume indented under the drive). Go to the Erase tab. Click the +Security Options+ button. Select to +Zero Out Data+ and OK. Back on the main screen, Erase the drive. +Zero Out Data+ will write zeroes to all sectors to make your data unrecoverable. Note: This procedure will take some time to complete.
After it completes, quit Disk Utility to go back to Installer. Perform a default installation and allow the iMac to restart to the fresh system. When you get to the setup screen, shut down.
If you cannot do the above with your Leopard disc, use Disc 1 of the Tiger set instead. After Tiger gets installed, if you promised Leopard pre-installed, you'll need use the Leopard disc to do the upgrade. Otherwise, I would just leave it with the original Tiger installation and let the new owner do the upgrades. Be sure to include the all three of those discs with the iMac.
EDIT: Actually, it may be best to install the original Tiger installation off those two discs first. There are some bundled apps (such as an older version of iLife) that would not get re-installed off the Leopard disc. If you (or the new owner) then upgrades to Leopard, ALL of the originally installed software will be there.

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If you have an Apple ID (you can create one at appleid.apple.com), you can login to supportprofile.apple.com, register an Apple product, and sign up for VoicePass, which, if you give your product a name e.g. Maria's Imac, you can speak that over the phone and skip having to give the serial number when you call.
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This is the link for your quick start guide: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/imac_late2012_quickstart.pdf
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Capacity: 180.51 GB (180,514,353,152 bytes)
Available: 45.81 GB (45,806,546,944 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/Snow Leopard Clone
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Capacity: 119.1 GB (119,098,183,680 bytes)
Available: 14.09 GB (14,087,548,928 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/Tunes and Photos
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Need help upgrading software on imac mid 2010, running OS X 10.6.8

I need to upgrade my software from OS X 10.6.8 but not sure where to begin. Do I have to purchase lion, mountain lion, leopard, snow leopard to get to maverick???

1. Yes, it is.
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Need help installing on new iMac

I am just in the process of getting ready to upgrade my G5 to Leopard, and then back up the drive to a firewire drive. I am also getting a new iMac, which will come with Leopard, Parallels, and Windows, pre-installed. I do not want to have to start putting my software on the new computer disc by disc. How do I transfer what I have on the firewire drive to the new computer? If I copy the drive over, will I lose what is pre-installed on the iMac? I can't copy the G5 drive to the firewire to begin with, and I can't copy it over from there to the iMac using SuperDuper, since I understand it does not work with Leopard, so what do I use? Can someone give this moron step by step instructions? I have had a number of computers over the years, but never copied over a drive - Inever had as much on a computer as I have put on it over the last few years, and I don't want to spend weeks transferring. Thanks for any advice! Leslie

Hi Leslie Weinberg;
If I understand you correctly you want to move your applications from a G5 to new iMac. This is know way to cause performance problems on the new iMac. The reason for this is that applications installed on the G5 are set up for PowerPC and the new iMac has an Intel processor.
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I do not think he has Timemachine turned on.
Thank You!!!!!!!!

In addition to Frank's suggestion, whatever components were removed can be restored using Pacifist.
See Kappy's directions for using
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17063732#17063732

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