Leopard and the Mini G4

I tried to upgrade my old mini (G4 with 256MB) to Leopard this morning. I put the Leopard DVD into the optical drive and the start install screen came up. I told it to restart and the mini restarte3d from the DVD. The gray apple and spinning circle came up. That was it. I tried powering off after 25 minutes and held down the C key. Same thing. Apple support asked me to try the Leopard DVD on my other computer and it still booted. They had me boot Tiger on the mini.
Best guess is not enough memory to boot the install APP for Leopard.
Anyone else had this problem?

John Angermayer wrote:
Best guess is not enough memory to boot the install APP for Leopard.
Correct. Leopard requires at least 512mb of ram and will not install with anything less.
Source: http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

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