How to install Leopard when disc drive is broken

Because the inbuilt CD/DVD drive has broken I use an external disk drive via USB (a LaCie d2). The Leopard install disc reads perfectly well from the LaCie drive (as you would expect) but when (at the very beginning of the install process) it prompts a Restart, the system simply restarts using the old OSX software instead of booting up from the Leopard install disc in the external LaCie drive. I guess this is because it only looks on the hard drive and the in built (now broken) CD/DVD drive. Does anyone know the best way of getting the install to work?
Thanks John

You can obtain an external hard drive with a Firewire port & clone the Leopard installer disc or restore an image of it to that drive. (Simply copying files won't work because that will not create a bootable disk.) You cannot copy
For more info on creating disk images & restoring them to other disks, see the Leopard help topic on your Mac, "*Restoring a disk or disk image to another disk*" & the topics it links to, like "*Restoring a disk image to a disk*." For more info on cloning, check out products like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.
You cannot use your existing internal hard drive as a substitute for an external one unless you can partition it so that the clone or restored image is on a separate partition from the normal one you wish to install Leopard on (the installer cannot install the OS to the partition it is running from). While it is possible to do "live" partitioning to a drive that already contains files, it is advisable to back up the existing partition to other media first because there is always a chance that something will go wrong in the partitioning process, leaving you without those files. Since you need an external drive to best do this anyway, I don't recommend this approach.
However, since you really should have an external drive for backups whether or not you are installing the new OS, you can combine this with the installer disc clone/restored image as follows:
1. Get a nice big Firewire external drive, say 500 GB or greater. These are pretty cheap these days. You should be able to find many suitable ones in the $80 to $150 range. As an example, a search of Amazon shows over 200 entries in the less than $200 range. Many are 'combo' units with USB, Firewire, & possibly other ports like e-SATA. For future needs & maximum flexibility you may wish to consider one of those; just make sure the one you choose has a Firewire port & can boot a Mac.
2. Before putting the drive into service, use Disk Utility to partition it into two or more volumes. One of them just needs to be a bit bigger than the total capacity of the installer disc, say 10 GB. Make this the last volume of the drive & you can delete it later if you wish but you probably will want to keep it around for future installs.
3. Use the above method to create the bootable version of the installer disc on this partition, restart from it using the option key method to invoke the Startup Manager, & install the new OS on the internal drive from it.
As a side benefit, since disk drives are much faster than DVD's, the startup & installation process will be faster than from the DVD.

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