How to reinstall OS with dead DVD drive?

Hi everyone. I recently upgraded to a new MacBook, and have an iBook G4 which I want to sell. Unfortunately the DVD drive has died in it. I put it in target disk mode, hooked it up to the MacBook, did a secure wipe of the hard drive, and then (mistakenly) thought I could run the installer from my MacBook and install a fresh copy of the OS on the iBook. You used to be able to do this sort of thing back in the old OS9 days, but when I try and boot the old installer on my MacBook it says that it can't be used on this machine, and when I try and run the installer on the MacBook it tells me to reboot the machine.
Is there any way to do this? Or am I going to have to replace the DVD drive before I sell it?
Message was edited by: Mac VFX Artist

I understand the concept, but will that work? This is an Intel machine, whereas the iBook is Motorola. I have a PowerPC Tiger installation disk. If I try and install it the MacBook thinks I'm trying to install a PowerPC OS and won't let me do it. If I use the MacBook install disk it will (I believe) install an Intel OS on a PowerPC computer. (Or will it install a UB OS?)
I even went into the individual installers at Install/Disk/Installation/Packages/ and ran OSInstall.mkpg. This boots, but when it gets to the list of disks it won't let me install on any external drives, saying "Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume," presumably because I'm trying to install a PowerPC OS.
Ugh!

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