Snow Leopard and new hard drive

I want to install a new hard drive in my MacBook and then restore from Time Machine. After I install the new hard drive do I have to reboot from the original OS X disk that came with my MacBook or can I just use the new Snow Leopard disk and restore from time machine?
If I can't reboot right from the Snow Leopard Disk would I have to restore from the original disk, then install Snow Leopard and then restore from time machine?

not sure where & how to start a conversation with you but here it is: bought a time capsule 2 weeks agao... tried to handle the whole thing by myself... however can't access hte message that says "which disk would you like to save your files too?" it just won't make that step... yet the green light is on... I did put snow leopard on... another thing don't see my time capsule in the finder left column??? any great ideas? can't wait to start with my TC... thnak you

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    * Install Snow Leopard as usual!
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