Leopard installation freezes

My girlfriend bought this weekend an used Macbook (the black one) that comes with Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1g RAM, 120HD, and originaly came with Tiger.
She bought it with leopard installed, and the seller give her the Leopard installation disk too, and I suggest her to instal Leopard again to start from zero with the Mac.
I started the intallation again and when it was almos finished it frezzes.
I tried again this morning and when it was arroun 40% complete, it shows a messages telling that an error ocurred during proces, because there was some foles that can not install, (volume/Macintosh HD).
what can i do...?

Your machine should be able to use that disc, let me think of another reason why that won't work.
P.S. in the first 15 minutes after you post, you can click on above your post to edit your post, usually. With the high traffic due to the keynote happening this afternoon, it is possible you didn't have the opportunity to do this, and hence your double post makes sense.
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