I Need a Hero

I need a hero
Here's one I bet you haven't heard before. Should be a challenge for one of you geniuses out there.
My friend had a black MacBook that was dropped and rendered display-less. No video signal at all. He takes it to the Apple Store. The resident genius tells him that repairing it would be cost prohibitive. My friend agrees and buys a new MacBook Pro. During the attempt to move all his files to the new computer, the disabled MacBook's hard drive takes a dump. They got everything off but some photos and my friend was happy.
I've since inherited a one-year-old black MacBook with no display and a dead hard drive. I thought I'd stick a new drive in it, remove the lid/display and hook it up to an external display. Instant desktop!
Here's what I've determined I am going to have to do so far:
1. Install a new hard drive
2. Boot up on the system install discs to install OS X.
If you haven't jumped ahead and figured out my dilemma, here is what I see coming. I will have no way to click my way through the installation without a display. I could go ahead and hook up to the external display but I would need to change the monitor settings to use the external monitor. And since there is no system installed yet, I'm not sure I'll have any Settings to change anyway.
To any of you that made it through this long-winded story, got any ideas?

Hook it up & see.
My G5 PowerMac has dual-monitors, and when you boot it up the initial grey screen appears on both. I've never tried it on a Mac laptop, but you might well find it automatically mirrors the laptop display to a connected external monitor during boot up, if it finds one connected.
If it doesn't work, then come back here worrying about it. I've worked blind a fair bit on Windows, but not on Mac - generally speaking the worst case is to perform exactly the same operations on another machine, work out the keyboard shorcuts and blindly enter them on the computer with the knackered monitor. It's amazing when it works, but also it almost always works!
Windows PCs have great easy-to-use keyboard shortcuts, but Mac OS X can talk (speech synthesis) during installation so that blind people can install it. You sound resourceful - I'm sure you'll be ok.
PS: if you can find a similar model on eBay which has a dead CPU or logic-board (ideal symptoms "it was getting really hot and the fan was on all the time, then it just wouldn't power up") then you may be able to affordably cannibalise it for parts. About the only Macs that are cheap on eBay are dead ones, and reselling the left-over spares can be profitable. That sort of task is quite delicate, though - you have to be very careful during disassembly and reassembly, take it real slow!

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