Unistalling and Re-installing Mac OS X Tiger

What are the steps to follow for uninstalling Tiger OS from my mac and then re-installing it? Actually what I want is to reset all my hard disk.
Thanks in advance.

Then it is fairly simple,
Place the Tiger install disk into the computer
Start the computer with the "c" key held down so that it starts with the install disk
Once started select from the menu at the top of the screen "open Disk Utility"
With Disk Utility select "erase" with the options of hfs and journaled
If you are selling the computer and worry about any information on the disk you can also select the option of thoroughly erasing with writing zeros for one or multiple times
Click "erase" and the hard drive will be erased as you selected
After erasing you can also use this time to partition the hard drive
Once finished, quit Disk Utility and continue with the installation of Tiger with the install disk.
After installation you can choose to update to 10.4.10 or what ever and I would use the combination installers. It does not hurt to repair permissions before updating and may help prevent later problems (especially true with 10.0, 10.2, and somewhat with 10.3. 10.4 has greatly reduced permission issues IMHO).
I hope this helps.

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