Creating a disk image for software installation

Hello all,
I'm having a problem with my iMac not reading my family pack OSX Tiger install DVD... although it worked fine on my other three macs. Someone said that I could "create a mirror image of the DVD to my desktop on another mac and then copy that to an ipod. Then use the ipod to boot up the imac and install Tiger".
Can anyone explain to me how to do that? IE... how to create a mirror image of the DVD so I can try the ipod fix?
Any help would be appreciated.
Matt

Matt, I may have a solution for you.
I was stumped by this and wanted to see if I could figure it out, so I was Googling around and ran into this. It is the very first post and details the process of how someone else used an iPod to install Tiger from DVD to a Mac that did not have a DVD drive.
If this gets deleted, please email me directly at my public address on my profile and I will send you the link again.

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