Mac Mini OSs10.4 restallation stalls

I have a mac mini (intel) that is about 2 years old and was running 10.4.11. Due to a problem with the latest update to airport, I was trying to do an "archive and install" off of the original system discs that came with the computer (10.4?). The install works for the first disc but stalls on the second disc with one minute left (that's what the screen says) during the iWeb tools installation. Any ideas how to fix? I wanted to try to reinstall off of a different 10.4.1 installation disc but I cannot get out of the current installation process. Everytime I force quit, and try to reboot using this different installation disc, it just wants disc 2 again.
Thanks
Peter

"... I wanted to try to reinstall off of a different 10.4.1 installation disc but I cannot get out of the current installation process. Everytime I force quit, and try to reboot using this different installation disc, it just wants disc 2 again."
Your intel mini will only work with the original OS disk set that came with it. You can't use another machine specific OS disk set nor a retail disk of Tiger. You can when you use the original disk #1 opt to not install all the world languages or printer drivers. That should eliminate the requirement for the disk #2.

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    25/12/2013 15:59:50.874 airportd[72]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “virginmedia1487092_EXT”. Bailing on auto-join.
    25/12/2013 15:59:50.882 airportd[72]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “virginmedia1487092_EXT”. Bailing on auto-join.
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