Lost Disc 2 of OSX 10.5 to finish installation, need help

Hi,
I have a Mac that has bee sitting in my room for a few about a year, I decided to see if it still runs and give it to my daughter. I turned it own and nothing showed up as a hard drive except that a disc was left installed on the computer. I finally got it out and tried to install it. The first disc went well and then it asked for disc 2. I don't have disc 2. I found a single disc of Snow Leopard or Lion and tried to install that, but when I try to install it, the only option it gives me is to install it on the first disc of 10.5, no hard drive.
So how to I get it to let me see the hard drive to install it on? Is there a way to wipe the drive of the attempt of installing 10.5 so I can install the next operating version that I have the disc's for?
Really confused.
Thanks
Tim

Hi,
Thats what I thought. I did that and nothing happened different, it said it is loading it all up and when finished went back to installer mode. I got the wifi working and downloaded all the updates it said it needed but it wouldn't load them on to run them. I am learning alot but not really making progress. I was thinking of running the two machines in Target mode. I have all the latest OSX on my own machine and the other one has nothing installed it said, is it possible for me to dump this operating system onto the other one. If this was your machine what would you do. The closet place that does mac repairs is about 100 miles away.
Thanks so much for your patience.
Tim

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