How can I Tell if my Snow Leopard disk is a family pack

Last year my daughter's macbook HD crashed. She's going to school in FL, got a new HD, and I told her to upgrade the OS and get a Snow Leopard Family Pack, and send it home. I'm finally getting around to installing it and it won't work. I get to the point of selecting a HD — it says my it can't be installed on my HD, but can install it on my emergency startup parition. I ran Disk Utitlities/Repair Disk, it says it's fine. I'd rather not go through the erase disk process. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Mike

Doesn't matter. Apple runs install discs on the honor system. It's up to you to follow the rules. If the one you have won't install, then there's something amiss with your installation. BTW, you show that you're running SL, so why are you wanting to install it? Try an update installer instead, such as the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

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