How do I install Snow Leopard onto a COMPLETELY BLANK hard drive?

My Macbook Pro's hard drive bit the dust last week so I bought a new one.  This has NOTHING on it.  No operating system, no files, nothing.   I have a Snow Leopard installation disk avaliable to me.  I can put in the disk and it will show the Apple logo but before long my computer beeps at me.  I looked up that problem and it seems that there is something wrong with the RAM, however, there was nothing wrong with it before my hard drive died, so I can't imagine what could be wrong with it.  I tried to take it out and put it back in but that didn't work.   I have tried starting up with the alt/option key, but I cannot get my  computer to connect to my wifi, not even through a direct  connection.  I "stole" a neighbor's and clicked on the internet recovery option (the only one that showed up on the screen.  It then said, "Internet Recovery Starting.  This may take a while."  And the little globe started to spin.  But then the globe stopped and there was a triangle with an exclaimation point in the middle of it.  Underneath it said "apple.com/support" and underneath that in pale letters it says "-1005F".   I have NO idea what that means.  I tried typing it into my internet browser (on a different computer, of course), but to no avail.  I have given up for now, with the hope that someone out there holds the answer.  Thank you so much for reading and I hope you know what to do because I am going absolutly insane. 

I need to know the model MBP you have.  On the bottom is the serial number.  Enter it here and post back.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
Ciao.

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