Leopard will not install on my iMac

Hey all,
so I have upgraded all of my laptops in the house with leopard with absolutely no problems. So I go to upgrade tiger to leopard on my iMac and it restarts fine but when you have to choose a location for it to install it tells you that it must erase the entire volume.
there is more than enough space on the HD but the little yellow triangle still appears so I can not proceed with the install without losing everything on the comp which I really do not want to do!
please help!!

btupper wrote:
sorry but could you elaborate a touch, i guess i am not as tech saavy as I think I am....could you explain the abvr. and expand....sorry and thanks!!
In your Utilities folder is an app called DU for Disk Utility.app
Run it, select your physical drive and check the disk.
Then select your OS-X partition and run permissions repair.
Zapping the PRAM is a process of resetting some of the boot items.
Here's how to "zap PRAM"
■
Shut down your computer. Turn the computer back on and immediately hold down Command-Option-P-R, continuing to press until you hear the startup sound for the second time. This resets the computer’s parameter random-access memory (PRAM).
IMPORTANT: Resetting PRAM may change some system settings and preferences. Use System Preferences to restore your settings.
Sometimes we forget about this Mac argot which has no correspondence to the PC world.
You'll catch on quickly though. Spend some time on these boards and you will have Mac-speak down pat.

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