Install Mac OS X from an External Fire WIre HD : PROBLEM!!!!

Hey guys, I have a MacBook and I wanted to re-install the Mac OS X software. My internal dvd drive doesn't seem to work anymore so I tried to install the OS on a partition of my fire wire drive, from my brother MacBook, no problem there. When I tried to boot my mac from the FireWire Drive, I wasn't able to install it to my computer. Now, the only way I can do anything is if I do it from the FW drive...
Is there anything I can do to solve to problem??

Were you able to boot your other computer from the FW drive? What did you put on the FW drive? Did you actually install OS X onto the FW drive?
If you installed OS X onto the FW drive and can boot the computer with it, then just clone it to your other computer. See the following:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the internal drive on the computer mounted in TDM.
Source means the external FW drive.
If you can connect both computers by FW, then you could actually clone the system from the working computer to the one with the bad optical drive using the above procedure. Destination would be the computer with the bad optical drive booted into TDM. Source is the good computer that you boot normally.

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