Installing OSX Tiger on new hard drive on a iMac G4

Hi
I've had a iMac G4 for about 4 years and the hard drive started to fail, seeing as my computer was way beyond any warrenty I opened it and replaced the hard drive with a maxtor 160GB drive. Ive put it back togethr and can boot it up using a firewire drive with OSX installed fine. But when I try and boot the computer and instal from the OSX disk that came with it, I hav a problem, it says the software can not be installed on this computer.
I've tried disconnecting the firewire and everything non essential before rebooting but I cant get it to work, any one know what I need to do?

Yeah, fraid so. When Apple ships out computers they all have install disks designed around that specific model. If you try to use that Macbook disc on a G4 tower it will detect the difference and refuse to load. It isn't a copyright thing but rather a difference in drivers or other software needed for that model. The retail version of the OS is a universal install including everything needed for every model capable of running Tiger. Presumably it doesn't load what isn't needed.Keep in mind that Leopard is due in October.

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