Not booting from dvd

[Jim1267]

I have a mac book running snow leopard. I am trying to boot from leopard dvd to install a backup os to a usb drive. The system tries to boot from the dvd but never gets past the "waiting" stage even after hours. Any ideas?

 

[spinnerlys]

Is that "Leopard DVD" the one that came with your MacBook or is it a Retail version of Mac OS X or is it a Restore DVD from another Mac?

 

[Jim1267]

It's the one that came with my MacBook.

 

[spinnerlys]

Have you verified the DVD via Disk Utility while booted into Mac OS X 10.6? Why don't you use the 10.6 DVD?

 

[Jim1267]

I'm trying to make a usb installation of Leopard to boot a PowerPC machine.

 

[spinnerlys]

I'm trying to make a usb installation of Leopard to boot a PowerPC machine.

Could you verify the DVD yet?

 

[Jim1267]

Yes, disk utility says that the dvd is ok, i appreciate the input btw

 

[Jim1267]

i still haven't resolved this issue, does anybody have any other ideas?