Installing from early system disc

I have an early Leopard disk, which my mac mini spits out after a quick examination. I have an up-to-date version of Leopard installed on an external drive and would like to install from my old Leopard disc -- which I paid for! -- COPYING all the elements from my current start-up disc... with the intention of upgrading the old Leopard as soon as I can start up from it. But I have to get at the original disc first, and for whatever reason it keeps getting spat out! (It works just fine in a Tiger machine.) Any thoughts on this? Thanks

I found this note on Wikipedia:
The following drives have firmware updates, but the firmware update software has been reported to refuse updates for no obvious reason:
Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00 (80GB 5400RPM)
*Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00* (This is mine)
Toshiba MK4019GAX (40GB 5400RPM)
Toshiba MK1032GAX (100GB 5400RPM)
It has been reported that for Hitachi drives, firmware update is possible only with drives manufactured for IBM. Other Hitachi drives may use PROM instead of EPROM for the firmware and thus cannot be updated.
Ring any bells? So far, I haven't actually found the update.

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