OSX 10.5. Will not start normally. Startup sound, then shutsdown.

OS X 10.5. Will not start normally. Startup sound, then shutsdown. Will start with startup disc inserted holding "C". 297.8gb capacity. 297.3gb used. Say's must format HD to install. How can I free up space to save my stuff? Can't access anything on HD. Disk Utility First Aid no help. What can I do?

Boot from the startup disk and run disk utility, repair permissions and repair disk as well. Reboot and see if this helps.
Your startup disk is completely full and could be why it will not boot. If you have access to another Mac and a firewire cable you can boot your broken Mac into Target Firewire mode by holding down T at the chime. This will then mean your broken Mac appears as an external drive on the other Mac allowing you to delete some files and see if it will boot once you have freed up some space.

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