Panther Upgrade - destination volume?

First time poster-- I have OS 10.2x and want to upgrade to 10.3 Panther.
I inserted the install disc, followed the Installer instructions through the Introduction, License, etc until I reached the phase on Destination Volume. There was nothing to select. The pane was empty.The continue button did not activate. Only active button was Go Back. I quit the Installer and after several hours figured out how to get the CD out and restore to my original OS. Here I am.
Why isn't there a choice for the destination volume?
Does there need to be one?
How do I move to the next phase and get the newer version loaded? I may be asking too many questions at once. I did look through previous posts and found nothing specific to my problem. There are a lot of posts!
Thank you.
Steve
PowerPC G4 iMac   Mac OS X (10.2.x)   800MHz, 512 MB

Yes.
I then attempted another restart. Same result. I saw a "show log" on the menu and clicked on it and it said the following:
Error detected
Name: NSGenericException
Reason: Target volume is damaged and cannot be repaired by the
installer
Completed installation steps:
Remaining installation steps:
Install failed
Error detected
Name: NSGenericException
I performed a Disk utility and checked the Panther install disk and they are ok.
Not knowing exactly what I was doing, i ran a repair disk permissions on the HD and it repaired some things and completed.
I then repair disk and got the following:
Keys of of order (in red letters)
Rebuilding Catolog B-tree
The volume MacIntosh HD could not be repaired (red letters)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972) (in red letters)
Repair attempted on 1 volume
0 HFS volumes repaired (in green letters)
1 volume could not be reapired (in red letters)
I am now back to Jaguar and running like when I bought it. I Just really want to upgrade, that's all.
Thanks to all for your input.
Darby905

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