formatting a new hard drive

Hi

I have a powerbook g4 17 in which the hard drive went south. I purchased a new 320 gig hard drive and watched the tutorials on youtube and installed the hard drive with no problems.

I inserted the osx leopard disc into the computer and booted up holding down the option key. after booting up I got a screen with two folders, on the left was a folder with a circular arrow and on the right was a folder with and arrow pointing to the right, then it spit out the osx leopard install disk and gave me the question mark icon.

what am I doing wrong?

Did you format the new hard drive using Disk Utility on the Leopard boot DVD?

formatting new hard drive

No I did not. thats the point the mac will not let me open up the disk to use disk utility

Do you still have your original install media for the Powerbook that you can try? Your Powerbook should be able to boot from the Leopard DVD, that is, if the Leopard DVD you're attempting to boot from is a retail version (black). If the DVD is gray-silver, that means it's machine specific and will not work to boot your Powerbook G4.

And with the DVD in, hold down 'C' after the chime.