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Usually you can install any IOS version supported by your hardware. I.e. you don't normally need to load intermediate IOS versions.
However, sometimes Cisco changes configuration statements between IOS versions. Jumping up a version or two is usually not a problem, but jumping many versions up, or even one version back, might cause some existing configuration statements to be unrecognized.
