Unable to install Leopard on MacBook Pro G4

I have a 2.16 GHz PowerBook G4 with 2 Gig of memory. When I try to install Leopard, I get as far as the restart. That it won't do. It comes up and says that it cannot be used as a start up disk and to make sure that the install disk is loaded. Well it is loaded, obviously, so what is happening? Why won't it continue into the installation. This is a brand new purchased disk.

I do not recall it being a G5
There was never a laptop from Apple with a G5 processor.
so it must be a G4 unless that designation is not used for the Core 2's.
"PowerBook" and "G4" only applied to the earlier laptops from Apple that contained the PowerPC G4 processor. Neither term applies to the current Intel-based Mac laptops of which the MacBook and MacBook Pro are examples. It's not a "technicality"; it's critical to identify correctly what model of Mac you have so that people give you appropriate advice. What works on one model of Mac doesn't always work on a different model.
That said, I repeat my question: have you tried booting it by inserting the CD, restarting, and holding down the "c" key? If not, try that and see if that will boot the system.

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