Cant Install Leopard Help!

To start out we have an older Macbook Pro with an Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz and a Power Mac4,5 with an PowerPC G4 (2.1). Both Computers have Tiger 4.11 but now we are trying to install/upgrade them to Leopard and eventually Snow Leopard. When I try to install Leopard it asks for the preferred language after I select the language it begins to load and then abruptly stops and says that if cannot install the software. Is their anything I can Do?

Hi
Also your proposed OS migration path is unnecessary.
You do not need to put leopard on macs and then change to Snow Leopard later on. For whatever machines are capable, go immediately to SL.
As stated, using a specific Mac install disk will not work on other machines. You need to buy a proper retail version (black discs) for generic installing on any machine, then use Software Update to upgrade to latest iteration for functionality and security.
cheers
dave

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*_Using Now_*
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Phelian wrote:
I bought my MacBook Pro with leopard and later upgraded to SnowLeopard. So I have a Leopard disk and a Snow Leopard disk. I want to completely re-install the system to start fresh, with a time machine backup,
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