Installing Leopard to Macbook from Imac

My son has a Macbook 15" white that I wish to upgrade to Leopard. The drive on his Macbook is broken and we don't feel there is a need to fix (USB Sticks and downloads are more than enough these days). I would prefer to format the Macbook and install Leopard clean because I am thinking of passing it on to his younger sister and buying him a new Macbook. I have the firewire and factory OSX Leopard. How should I proceed?
Macbook is currently running latest Tiger: 1Ghz 60GB HD 2Gb DDR2 SDRAM (also doing the weak and dropping Wifi thing).

Wf5ve wrote:
My son has a Macbook 15" white that I wish to upgrade to Leopard. The drive on his Macbook is broken and we don't feel there is a need to fix (USB Sticks and downloads are more than enough these days). I would prefer to format the Macbook and install Leopard clean because I am thinking of passing it on to his younger sister and buying him a new Macbook. I have the firewire and factory OSX Leopard. How should I proceed?
Boot the MacBook with the "T" pressed. Soon you should see a yellow FireWire icon moving around the screen. Connect the MacBook and the iMac with a FireWire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac and tell it to install onto the MacBook.
One possible wrinkle: Is your Leopard disc black (retail) or gray (machine-specific)?

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