Powerbook 6,7 (ibook g4?) hard disc died.  Installed new disc.  Ibook G4 restore disc (v10.4) produces error " This software cannot be installed on this computer"  what can I do?

I formatted the drive using the disk utility and restarted and it still gives the same message.

Boot from the restore disc and select Disk Utility from the Installer or Utilities Pull-Down menu.  Take a look in Disk Utility near the bottom when you have the drive (not the Volume under the drive) selected.  Is the Partition Scheme listed as Apple Partition Map?
If not, then you need to correct that by selecting the Partition tab, click "Options" and click the Apple Partition Map radio button, then click the "OK" button and then click the "Partition" button on the DU window.  If you didn't have APM at the beginning of this exercise, that should solve the problem.
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