How to install iLife on an iBook without DVD drive

Some time ago I bought iLife 8 only to find it was on a single DVD which I could not use on my twin-USB iBook with only a CD drive. Now a friend has suggested that the DVD could perhaps be copied to 6 Cds and loaded that way. Toast has a spanning facility to spread a big file over multiple disks. Or could my iBook be hooked to a big Mac with a DVD drive, and the program transferred by Target Disk Mode. Does anyone know if either of these techniques would work?

Of the two, target mode would be far more efficient (and less risky -- in terms of software data corruption). I have in the past installed OS X on a machine with a poor DVD drive, so iLife should be no problem.

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