Loading Operating system on New Hard Drive

I am having difficulty getting the Mac OS to install on a new hard drive.
I formatted the hard drive and partitioned.
I have been able to get disc 1 installed, but the computer rebooted before I saw the prompt for the 2nd disk.
When I turn on the computer, I not have the apple icon with a rotating circle beneath.
Help?

camillefromgnm wrote:
Closest I have is Mac OS Extended (journaled). Should I stay with that format?
Yes, that's what they used to call it.
camillefromgnm wrote:
I have 2 disc OS X to install. When I install again.... should I get a prompt to take out disc 1 and install disc 2 OR do I take the same step of boot + "C"+ disc 2?
Only if it asks you during the installer to stick in the second disk, then just stick it in, no c or boot needed.
Once you booted into Leopard off the hard drive, check out if you have iLife or not (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Garageband etc) or not.
That's what matters, you can stick the second Leopard disk in to see what it contains or install those applications from the second Leopard Disk before you do Snow Leopard upgrade.
You don't need to c boot from the second Leopard disk, only the first.
Once you got Leopard and iLife installed, then stick in the Snow Leopard disk (no need to c boot) and simply run the upgrade from the disk and it will take care of you.

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