Cant install Tiger

Help!
I bought an eMac from my company when they sold them off, however i didn't get any disks with it, and the software wasn't working properly. So i decided to do a clean install like i do many times with windows XP. I bought a 4 CD version of Tiger off ebay and it gets almost to 90% of disk 3 and says it cant be read, it restarts the installation step from disk 2. I have bought another copy of Tiger, again off ebay, this time only a 2 disk version. But my emac will not allow me to boot off disk 1. I am totally new to macs & tiger, is there anyway to restart the installation from disk 1 again?

Hey su37flanker and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
Like Chopsuey says it is possible that first disk is damaged. What does it look like? Sometimes they can be recovered with cleaning or scratch repair with polish.
There could also be a problem with the drive itself.
I use a known good external for all my installations.
Never seen a two disk retail installer. That sounds like a machine specific.
So i decided to do a clean install like i do many times with windows XP.
Once you get this working I think you'll find the Mac installs a lot simpler. I do both and I'm always swearing at the XP installs since you have to enter info at so many different points.
Richard
Richard

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