Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on older MacBook

I have recently bought a MacBook Pro. I want to give my old MacBook to my mother, but don't have the original discs that came with it to do a factory reset. Is it possible to do this using the discs that came with my MacBook Pro?
The old MacBook was bought new in 2006.

Hi Jennifer Foskett;
No. Those DVDs are specific to the new MBP.
If you call Apple for a nominal fee they will send you new replacements for the original DVDs which will works on the old MBP. Also in case your mother even needs to do any major system work on the MBP, she will appreciate have the DVDs.
Allan
Message was edited by: Allan Eckert

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