Is there a 'tiger upgrade' only cd?

i have an imac (800 mhz, 256 ram, lots of disk space) running 10.1.3. i purchased a tiger cd in taiwan. i've brought it home and tried to install tiger on the imac. it says i need 10.3 in order to upgrade. i erased the hard drive (twice!) from disk utilities and rebooted. it still says i need 10.3 to upgrade (with no other installation options). what gives? is this a different sort of 'upgrade only' cd? please help
imac Mac OS X (10.1.x)
imac Mac OS X (10.1.x)
imac Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Hi athenanex,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
You obviously try to install from upgrade disks. In order to use these upgrade disk you have to have a bootable system 10.3.x installed. These upgrade disks are only meant for users who bought a new Mac after 10.4 was introduced and the preinstalled system was still 10.3.x. For all others using these disks is illegal.

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i have both 9.2.2 and ox 10.0.2 installed on my computer, and usually boot from 9.2 (i know, get with it, huh) because my photoshop, illust, quark, etc. are all for classic apps)..that's why i bought tiger (yep, the black disk) but found out if i installed it it would wipe out my hd, and then couldn't do the upgrade because i don't have 10.2 yet....
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