...the first screen where the little apple shows up. The DVD is spinning, but after about a minutes or two, it stops spinning.

and the installation wont get pass that.
what am I missing? how can i fix it?

I have a gateway laptop model number: 4530GZ

pleas help me!! I am new with all this hackint0sh!! thanx in advanced!!

Please post your full specs, no links

Processor: Intel® Pentium® M 725 (1.6 GHz)

BIOS:
Phoenix BIOS
4 MB Flash ROM
SMBIOS 2.3 support
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 1.0b and 2.0 (ACPI 1.0b and 2.0) support
Wired for Management 2.0 (WfM 2.0)

Internal Memory:

Two 200-pin industry standard DDR-SODIMM sockets
Accepts two 333 MHz DDR RAM memory modules in memory bay
No internal memory
2 GB maximum system memory

Graphics controller:
Intel® with 32 MB UMA Video Memory (chipset integrated)
2D hardware acceleration
3D rendering acceleration

Hard drive:
60 GB
2.5-inch diameter
9.5 mm height

OS:
Microsoft® Windows® XP

System Management:
SMBIOS 2.3 BIOS support
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 1.0b and 2.0 (ACPI 1.0b and 2.0) support
Support for Wake on LAN from S3 power mode
Support for Intel® LANDesk® Client manager 6.0
Wired for Management 2.0 (WfM 2.0) enabled

System Compatibility:
PC2001 specification
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface 1.0b and 2.0 (ACPI 1.0b and 2.0) support
SMBIOS 2.3
Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified

Did you try with another distro like kalyway or leo4all? check the HCL to know if someone else got success or for similar specs.

I can see your system is pretty old you can try with tiger

But thanx for letting me know. I went to the pirate bay website and i saw about 15 different versions. Can you suggest me one (the exact name) that you it works so i can download it!

Thanx!