Install on a new hard drive question
So my hard drive failed in my iMac. I had a 2Tb drive I was not using so I took the Mac apart and installed my drive in it. I am now trying to get snow leopard installed from my original disk. It hits 22 minutes left (only about 3 minutes in) and then says install failed. The installer could not copy the necessary support files. It makes me reboot and tries again with the same results. I have gone to disk utilities and made a smaller 500gb partition as well as verifying and repairing the drive. Both of which said it was ok. It won't let me eject the disk since it boots right to the disk. I tried command option o f but still could not get it to eject. Any other ideas to get an os on this new drive?
IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)