Reinstalling Tiger to wiped 80GB HD-Missing destination disk

Hello,
I recently installed 500 GB SATA drive (w/PCI contoller) along with existing 10 GB HD (original HD) and another 80 GB HD that I wiped from 2 partition drive back to single partition- Then tryed to reinstall Tiger to 80GB drive and @ install no destination disk is showing up.
I have used Disk Util to partiton and repair disk and still no dest. disk shows.
Any suggestions?
IceBiscuit

Brain cramp, Had older version 10.2 tryin gto install on top of 10.3.3, I dug deep but not deep enough.

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