A clean install of mac os?

[phry26temp]

I have a Macitosh powerbook G3 laptop which is crashing constantly. I have tried reinstalling the OS 9.1 thrice, once normally and twice with a clean install neighter fixed the problems. This stupid thing crashes running realplayer, office, the mp3 player, everything. So ala windows I assume a formating of the drive will fix these problems, am I right? If I am can I do this with a Mac OS 9.1 cd or do I need to get an older version to start of the install. I am a little out of my depth with mac right now and I dont want to start this without all the software I am going to need.
Thanks for your help guys.

 

[n0cmonkey]

There is a format option in the install.

 

[phry26temp]

fast and informative thanks

 

[Utterman]

What you have to do in select the OS 9.1 CD as the startup disk and boot into that. There is a hard drive formatting tool on the cd that you use (actually they call it intializing the disk). Once you do that, you can install OS.

 

[bubba]

Hold down the "C" key to boot from the CD (if the CD is bootable).