10.5 installation is not working on a SL mac pro

i installed SL on my Mac Pro early 2009. its working good but i want a leopard system for the case that something is not working. i removed the system hard drive and put in a new harddrive.
i tried to install from a leopard installation DVD (from the macbox package) but the installation stops (freezes) before you can choose the language.
i also tried the recovery DVD of the mac pro. it´s the same.
starting up with the SL DVD works fine. so the DVD drive should be ok.
any ideas?
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No retail Leopard Mac Box is going to have the 10.5.7 build that was/is the minimum system required for Early 2009 Mac Pro.
Also, any upgrade graphic card can require later system and/or drivers.
Therefore you need your OEM DVD that the Mac Pro came with; or any SL 10.6 DVD. That is not a recovery DVD but full install (recovery brings to mind a different type non-installer which Apple doesn't use that I'm aware of).
By default any internal drive on Mac Pro will get formatted as GUID. And I've rarely seen where someone made a mistake and that was the issue.
I'd expect to see a kernel panic with 10.5.6 retail DVD.
Before installing or upgrading the OS, just clone the system to another drive or sparse diskimage and keep that handy and set it aside. But don't overwrite your only system, especially not on Mac Pro and given the more complex issues wtih drivers; graphics; and RAID controllers.

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