Tiger won't install on macbook

I recentlly purchased a Macbook MA252 1.83GHz 2GB 320GB. It came without an operating system. I tried to install Snow Lepord but it said I needed Lepord first. So I then tried to install Tiger but when I put the disk in it does nothing. I'm assuming that the computer doesn't support the newer version of Tiger & I have to install Lepord. The Tiger disk isn't the gray disk but the black one. Any help would be great.

The Mac OS X Server 10.4 Universal Binary will run on early Intel Macs and is available to the public, and every Intel Mac that was publicly available and has at least 2GB of RAM supports Snow Leopard or Lion.
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