I'm trying to install Leopard and my MacBook keeps spitting out the CD. What do I do?

Hold its nose.

so no computer geeks on fluther?

It’s just an odd symptom. Probably more mechanical than anything else. What happens with other disks?

Have you tried holding down alt during boot up and selecting the CD if it stays in?

it spits them all out

That’s a mechanical problem with your drive. I suggest you swap it out or run the install disk from a usb CD/ROM

@dverhey just tried holding down alt after I put the CD in and it still spit it out. It doesn’t show up in finder… so how would I select it?

No luck then. It’s a drive issue. Is it a new computer?

You can get a drive to swap. Or borrow a USB drive. Or even make a bootable image of Leopard on a thumb drive, and boot from that.

@dpworkin how do I make a bootable image? do I have to go to another computer?

Not if you use a thumb drive. But I don’t know the details for Unix, only Windows. Sorry.