Installing tiger on powerbook with broken screen

I am attempting to install Tiger on an older Powerbook (G4 Titanium 1ghz 1gb), which has a damaged and illegible LCD. The machine is fully up to date with 10.3.9, and works fine connected to a Cinema display.
After booting from the 10.4 install DVD, it appears that the updater wants some kind of input, but this is not being echoed to my external monitor. I've tried it with display mirroring both off and on, but to no avail. Does the update work only with the onboard monitor when it senses a Powerbook ? And if so, are screencaps out there somewhere so that I can try to answer the install prompts while flying blind ?
thanks !
Powerbook G4 Titanium   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

I don't know about the external monitor, but you can install OSX on any Firewire disk.
To boot from that blind Mac, plug in the blind Mac to a working Mac with a Firewire cable. Boot the blind Mac holding the "t" key down (for Target). The blind machine's hard disk should appear in the other Mac's mounted disk list. Proceed to install on the Firewire mounted disk.
Once that is done, boot from the blind Mac's hard disk and finish the setup. To do this, start it up while holding down the "t" key. Shut down other Mac and hold down the option key while starting. The "Restart" menu item may not work here, so you may need to completely shut down and start from the power button.
Now you see the screen to choose what disk to boot from. Boot from the blind disk and your working Mac will be running from the blind Mac's hard disk and you can set it up for remote login, etc.

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