Cant install OS X on 2006 Macbook

[jkeating2005]

I am trying to reinstall OS X on my old 2006 MacBook core 2 duo. I have a leopard install disk and a tiger install disk.

On boot up, i get the chime and then it spits the disk right out.

I have made USB images of both to try to install and when I Hold down the option Key, i get the mouse cursor to come up over the white screen but the usb drive does not load into the boot-able options.

any ideas on what i can do?

What i have to help are a

2011 Macbook Pro
2009 Mac Mini

 

[miles01110]

Are they retail discs? Because you can't use a grey restore disc from a dissimilar machine to install OS X.

 

[jkeating2005]

Definitly Retail discs. I have the Grey disks from that model, which are also tiger disks and it spits them out also.

I can understand if the disk drive went bad, But why is it not letting me install via USB image.

The USB image drive works on my mac mini