Help restore disk image from firewire drive to new serial ata drive

Heres my situation I inherited a mac mini without the installation cd. I also have an imac with the oem installation disk. I made a disk image of the mac mini (10.4.11) with disk utility on to an attached firewire disk. I've ordered a new drive for the mac mini and want to lay down the 10.4.1 disk image and then upgrade to snow leopard. I boot with my OEM Disk (10.5) and go into disk utility and select the image for restore. It reports running time of 2 hours and shows progress but when I come back the cd seems to be thrashing and no matter how long I leave it it doesn't restore. What are my options here is it possible to use the 10.5 startup disk to restore an image file made by 10.4.11

Hi bgagew, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Cloning would be a far better way...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
But...
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
Once DU is up chose the Restore option to restore/copy the Disk Image to the HD.

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