Reinstalling Tiger using a install disc from another mac?

I have 2 macbook pros. A brand new one with the Santa Rosa chip and 1 with the older chip. Can I use the disc that came with the new mac with the newest version of OS and other programs to update the older macbook pro?
Thanks.

rick.pearl wrote:
Does this mean that I shouldn't use the Generic Tiger install disc to reformat the macbook pro either? Would I be missing drivers or anything by doing this?
Well, if by "Generic" you mean the boxed retail version of Tiger, you wouldn't be able to boot from it. No boxed retail Tiger has the Intel software or drivers necessary to boot an Intel Mac. Only the discs shipped with Intel CPUs have the Intel OS on them.
Presumably this is not the case with the Leopard discs, which must have the code for both architectures...
charlie

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