INSTALLATION OF SNOW LEOPARD USING REMOTE DISC

Hi
I have a Macbook Air circa 2009 v10.5.8 and have the installation disc for Snow Leopard which I have attempted to install via the optical drive in my Sony Vaio.  When I select Remote Disk on my Air, I can see the Snow Leopard Disc and it allows me to accept the Apple terms and proceeds to install but then seems to hang.  I then have to restart my Air by using the on/off button and have repeated the process several times to no avail.  I can see that the optical drive is working but it stops eventually presumably because it fails to connect to the Air. On the Air I receive a message to the effect that I need to run disc utility to repair a faulty disc but am unsure whether this is correct as Snow Leopard is a new disc which appears undamaged.  Any thoughts would be much appreciated.  By the way I am using the same wireless network for both computers.
Thanks
Neil

It would help with more information. Do both computers have Firewire ports? If so, then connect the computer without a DVD drive to the other computer using a Firewire cable. Boot the computer without a DVD drive into Target Disk Mode then after you see the TDM logo boot the other computer using the Snow Leopard DVD. You can install to the computer without a DVD drive by selecting its hard drive as the target destination.
You can only use Remote Disc if you have the software installed. If you have the software then you should find documentation along with it. You can download it from support.apple.com/downloads/.

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