Restore with TM using new Leopard disc

I’m looking to restore my crashed white Macbook from Time Machine with a new retail Leopard disc.
I’ve installed a new harddrive and currently have Tiger on it – I had stupidly forgotten that my Macbook came with Tiger and that a tech guy at my former job had installed Leopard when it crashed a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately I never got the disc from him, so I bought a new Leopard disc and I’m wondering what the best way is to go about restoring my system, and if there’s a difference not having the original disc that my backed up system comes from.
1. Should I erase Tiger before i start - if so how?
2. Should I install Leopard and after that restore from Time Machine?
3. Or should I boot from the disc (press ”C” when booting, right?) and do the ”restore from backups” in utilities?
Bit of a noob at this, obviously, so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
/Dan.

Spinza wrote:
I’m looking to restore my crashed white Macbook from Time Machine with a new retail Leopard disc.
I’ve installed a new harddrive and currently have Tiger on it – I had stupidly forgotten that my Macbook came with Tiger and that a tech guy at my former job had installed Leopard when it crashed a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately I never got the disc from him, so I bought a new Leopard disc and I’m wondering what the best way is to go about restoring my system, and if there’s a difference not having the original disc that my backed up system comes from.
1. Should I erase Tiger before i start - if so how?
no.
2. Should I install Leopard and after that restore from Time Machine?
no.
3. Or should I boot from the disc (press ”C” when booting, right?) and do the ”restore from backups” in utilities?
yes. that's the way to go in your situation. the retail disk you are using will work just fine for you.
Bit of a noob at this, obviously, so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
/Dan.

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