Installing snow leaopard from the cd I have ordered

I have a Mac book Pro from 2008
2 weeks ago I was told that I need to get now leopard to be able to have the new safari and stuff... so I ordered my Snow leopard
Now the cd is here.... what do I need to do? am I going to loose any of my data if I install it?
how does it work?
I have an external hard drive but I haven't connected it to my laptop recently.
what happens when I start installing Snow leaopard?

The first thing you need to do is back up your data. You need to do that anyway, whether you install SL or not.
After you have backed up, boot from the DVD and follow the instructions. You won't lose any data as long as nothing goes wrong. If something does go wrong, you have a backup. Two backups would be better.

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    CPP="gcc -E -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"'" srcdir=. sh ./osdef.sh
    AWK=gawk CC="gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe" srcdir=. sh ./comm.sh
    gcc -c -I. -I. -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGIT_REV=\""`git describe --always 2>/dev/null`"\" \
    -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe screen.c
    gcc -c -I. -I. -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGIT_REV=\""`git describe --always 2>/dev/null`"\" \
    -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe ansi.c
    gcc -c -I. -I. -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGIT_REV=\""`git describe --always 2>/dev/null`"\" \
    -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe fileio.c
    gcc -c -I. -I. -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGIT_REV=\""`git describe --always 2>/dev/null`"\" \
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    -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe resize.c
    gcc -c -I. -I. -DETCSCREENRC='"/usr/etc/screenrc"' -DSCREENENCODINGS='"/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGIT_REV=\""`git describe --always 2>/dev/null`"\" \
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    extern.h:159: error: conflicting types for 'execvpe'
    /usr/include/unistd.h:585: note: previous declaration of 'execvpe' was here
    make: *** [socket.o] Error 1
    ==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...
    Error: Makepkg was unable to build screen-git package
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    yeah, i also got that message.
    for vertical split you can go for screen-vs package. this is screen with the vs patch.
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