Installing Leopard via external dvd

is there a way that Ieopard can be installed via an external dvd drive... My Imac 15 inch won't read the install dvd and I read somewhere that it's possible... Is there some truth to this? If so can someone give me instructions
thanks

Yes, you can as long as the external DVD drive is bootable and in a Firewire enclosure because you cannot boot a G4 Mac from a USB device.
Be sure you computer meets the requirements to install Leopard:
System requirements
You must have a Macintosh computer with:
• an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 (867 MHz or faster) or G5 processor
• a DVD drive
• built-in FireWire
• at least 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM is recommended for development purposes)
• a built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
• at least 9 GB of disk space available, or 12 GB of disk space if you install the developer tools

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