Can't Reinstall 10.6 on MacBook Pro with Original Disc!

Ok, so I bought a new MacBook Pro and am giving my old one to a friend; it's a late-2009 MB Pro 13" with the original grey discs. I upgraded the hard drive with a new one, as well as deauthorized it from my Apple account (I had to do this to register my new one...not sure why). After I correctly formatted the new hard drive in Disc Utilities, I noticed that it says "OS X Utilities." In the menu options, I see Reinstall OS X, and this obviously wants to install OS X Yosemite. If I do click continue, it gets an error and says try running the application again. I'm assuming this is happening since I deauthorized the computer, but I could be wrong. Also, where it says "Choose Startup Disk," there is nothing to select.
I also tried to simply install from the grey disc by holding Command+C, but it doesn't do anything yet sounds like it's reading the disc, and then a gray folder with a question mark begins flashing. I'm honestly not sure what's going on, so maybe someone has a suggestion?
Thanks!

I just reset both and when I restarted, I connected to my wifi and then got a globe with an exclamation point within a triangle, with the text "apple.com/suppot" and beneath that "-1006F" ha

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