Powerbook as a dvd drive

I have a old macintosh G4 tower and one of my two harddrives died, so I need to reinstall OSX on it. problem is I only have OSX install disks that are DVDs and I don't have a dvd driver on the tower. so does anyone know if it would be possible to use my PowerBook and a firewire cable to act as a DVD drive for my old PC? (I would just buy a dvd drive, but being a poor college student I can't afford it) any help would be greatly appericated.
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

The Media Exchange is likely the better long-term solution, but to answer your question specifically: yes, you can connect the PowerBook to the tower in Target Disk Mode, and insert the DVD into it to have it mount on the tower. However, to install Tiger, you'll probably have to do this the other way around - mount the tower via TDM and install to it from the PowerBook.
This is because you would need to bypass the main Installer and use the OSInstall.mpkg directly to avoid the Restart step, as covered in this MacOSXHints.com article. Depending on which version of the Tiger install disc you have, you may have some additional steps (such as blessing the system volume) per the comments in the article, as some post-Intel Tiger install discs apparently aren't as successful in completing the installation on a non-startup volume.
You can also make a disk image of the DVD and mount that to speed up the install process, vs running off the DVD directly, although the process above would still apply.

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