How do I make a Snow Leopard bootable iso on a thumb drive?

I am about to have an old Macbook with a new blank HDD and an optical drive that doesn't accept CDs or DVDs.  I know if I could make a bootable iso, or put an iso of the Snow Leopard disc I have on a bootable thumb drive, I could install SNow Leopard on this Macbook and give it a new lease on life.
I haven't been able to find info on how to do this.
Can anyone out there help with a link or bit of advice?
Thanks.
I have access to iMacs at school, but at home I only have access to a couple of diskless Macs and a Win7 box with a DVD/CD writer.
Message was edited by: Fuzzy2k

The resolved thread in the sidebar has some info on how to do this…
Re bootable thumb drive being burned to disc

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