Formatting Drive to reinstall Tiger..

Hi,
I'm about to reformat my HD on my MacBook to reinstall Tiger. I've put the Tiger Install disk in and started up the installation.
Having restarted the machine, I select my language etc, I get the message:
Alert
This Software cannot be installed on this computer.
Would this be because:
A) I need to format my drive first... Obviously I can't install the Os when there is one already installed.
Or might it be..
B) The installation disc I'm using came with my Mac Pro, not my MacBook? I haven't got my MacBook Installation disc with me at Uni. I would normally just try formatting my drive and seeing what happens, but I don't want to do that and it turn out that the problem is B!
If it doesn't matter which disc I use then this isn't the issue... I presume formatting my drive will sort it.
Thanks!

02drummersteve02 wrote:
Some software I got was acting a bit funny (on my Mac Pro), so was going to see if it was OK on Tiger or not. I don't use the laptop so much anymore, more for Live music stuff, so it's not an issue reformatting etc. Thought it was worth a try.
I'm going to try and revert to an earlier version of Leopard. Do I have to reformat and reinstall Leo to start from 10.5.1? or is there an easier way? Thanks
Unless you have a backup, you have to start from scratch with Leopard.
However, you should consider installing Tiger on an external drive. I have Tiger 10.4.11 on my TM drive and it runs fine. You can use it just as if it were on your internal drive and it's not much slower.

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