How do I install Mac OS from another computer using firewire?

My iMac has a bad CD drive but I was told that there is a way to install Leopard from another computer using a firewire connection between the two. I put the install CD in the other computer and rebooted it using "T" (and I see the floating firewire symbol as expected). But I don't see the install disk on the iMac. What's up?

you can try another way:
connect a firewire drive to the good Mac. Partition the drive and make the second partition as small as you can but at least 8 gigs. Mount he Leopard DVD to desktop. Launch Disk Utility and select that external drive and the restore tab. Drag the source , ie the MacOSX DVD to source window and that second small partition to the destination window. Select restore and enter your password. Wait 30 mins, restore is done. Quit all programs. Unmount that external drive. Connect to the "bad" Mac and restart it from that external drive to install Leopard OSX. You can if you want load most of your software on the first partition of the external and install your software unless of course you did a Time Machine to make it far simpler.

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