G5 xserve running Server 10.3.9 fails to upgrade to server 10.5

We have an Xserve Dual G5 XServe with xserve 10.3.9 that was setup out of the box about 4 years ago. We purchased Server 10.5 for an upgrade. After making a full backup we booted from the 10.5 DVD, We are able to click through and select the volume to upgrade, it starts to do the upgrade states it is copying files for a couple of seconds then stops and states unable to install on this volume, you may need to run disk utilities to run this upgrade. I have run the disk utilities, repaired permissions, repaired the disk (neither stated problems) tried again with the same result. I have 2 drives in a mirror configuration that the partition is on. Any thoughts.

Hi Sean Clark4-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple Discussion boards
How much free space on the destination volume?
You may need to create the partition using 10.5. I would suggest a full backup to an external drive or two before attempting this upgrade anyway, and you could restore the information once the upgrade is complete.
Luck-
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