I book G4 won't read leopard disk!!

HI --
saw an earlier post about a power book G5 not being able to read the leopard disk. i've been having the same problem. my husband already installed the softward sucessfully on his power book G5. . . .and then when we inster the disk into my iBook G4 (already upgraded to tiger last year w/ out problems. . .) it either spits it out or doesn't read it at all. its a double-layered disk ( family pack. . .4 copies made from original, like they said to in the store. . .). . .and even tried re-starting , pressing "c" button, etc.
any ideas?
any other ways to install? maybe fire wire. . .??
just did disk warrior and cleaned out to allow for more memory space as well. . .
please help. . .i REALLY want to upgrade to leopard!!!
THANKS!!!!!

I had similar problems - the Leopard install on my G5 PPC went without a hitch but I had problems on my G4 powerbook. It kept ejecting the install disk. I cleaned the drive (using a CD disk with tiny brushes specifically made for cleaning the lens) and also cleaned the install DVD. It still ejected the DVD but I persisted and eventually it installed successfully.
I would keep trying.
If it still doesn't work you could try the firewire route but you need to read up on how to do it and any restrictions.
Good luck
Geoff

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