Graphite with broken CD drive how can I install OS

Hi
I have a friend that was given a graphite ibook but it was acting really flaky,
I played with it for a week and came up with the following problems; the
hard drive was really slow and clicking, CD drive didn't work and battery didn't hold a charge for very long. We ordered a new hard drive and he bought a used CD drive off ebay. The hard drive install went fine but the
used CD drive wouldn't fit, I think because it wasn't a combo drive which the
original was. We tried to install OS on hard drive by using an external CD drive, which appeared to work until we tried to restart. Here is my question how can I get OS onto the hard drive without the internal CD drive working?

Which ibook do you have? The G3 colored Clamshell iBooks never came with combo drive (according to EVERYMAC.COM), it was either a CD or a DVD-ROM. Kinda confusing, but Neil is right in that you can use Firewire target Mode to install the what ever apps you need , or just attach to a cd or dvd drive from another network resource (another MAC). I do that on my G3 which has a cd rom but it is unplugged to use the IDE connector for another hard drive and I mount the Superdrive from my G5 to my G3 and load appps that way. Works great.
Hope that helps...
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