Install Ubuntu on a G3 iBook with a failed optical drive via MacBook Pro

I have a G3 iBook that has a failed drive. I want to install Ubuntu on it, but the CD-drive won't read discs anymore.
I do have a MacBook Pro. Is there anyway I can put the Live CD into my MacBook Pro and have the iBook boot from my MacBook Pro's optical drive?

The way I read the Apple Knowledge Base article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303118
That would only work if the iBook, too, is running OS X 10.4. (It may be; but it may not. I take it that it's the MacBook in OS X 10.4.7, Wayland?)
I'm not sure you would have to boot from the Ubuntu disc in order to install from it (never having used Linux). If you do have to boot from the Linux disc, I'm not sure FireWire Target Disk Mode will work at all for this purpose, since FireWire Target Disk Mode is a feature of OS X.
You may want to ask about this in the Unix Forum, Wayland.

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