There's a few things to consider there. One would be to first inspect the disk to see what shape that is in like seeing finger marks or scratches. The optical drive there may need a good lens cleaning or may have gone?
See if the installer on another software disk will start up even though you can only go so far that will show if the drive is still good. Another thought is the drive's cable if that is slightly unplugged or simply needs replacing. If that's a flat ribbon type on an older system it's probably dryed out and not seeing full signal transfer.
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