Leopard not installing on iMac

I have made three partitions on my 1TB hard drive. I haver reinstalled lion on the main part and wish to install leopard on one of the others partiitons. When I restart the computer to install with the leopard disc I keep getting a black screen with some writing on which seem to relate to the kernal.
I have an imac i7 with 12GB ram. can any onyone help on this please-thought it would be an easy job.. I presume I can load leopard onto an intel mac?

Sorry, but you will not be able to run Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a Core i7 iMac. Except in very specific and uncommon circumstances which your system does not meet, you cannot install a version of Mac OS X older than what came with the Mac - earlier versions won't have the drivers for the newer hardware - and i7 iMacs all have come with Snow Leopard (until the most recent units shipping with Lion).
Regards.

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From what I understand, there is a definite difference although I do not know what it is. So I don't really know about what the upgrade disc does. But I am surprised it gave you no options. Did it have anything you could print out like the "Mac OS X v. 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide" that comes with the full retail version?
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There should be some way to do what you want with her discs--it may be worth printing out whatever information there is and reading it closely and see if something is possible. I do know that the "options" box on my copy of Leopard was so subtle that I missed it the first time. It appears on the "select a destination" page in the lower left corner.
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From what I understand, there is a definite difference although I do not know what it is. So I don't really know about what the upgrade disc does. But I am surprised it gave you no options. Did it have anything you could print out like the "Mac OS X v. 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide" that comes with the full retail version?
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