Installing Vista on iMac with 2 Discs?

I have Windows Vista Ultimate, and it came on two discs. I was going through the installation process when it told me to insert the second disc. I tried pressing the eject key on my keyboard, but the disc remained in the iMac. I then tried to put the second disc in my external drive, but that didn't work either. I also tried booting disc from the external drive, and putting the second disc in the iMac, but it didn't work.
So how can I complete the installation if I can't get the first CD out to put in the second one?

hmmm....well I've only used the external drive method installing my copy of XP (which is upgrade-only) so in order to get around that limitation of not being able to eject disc while drivers aren't loaded, I was able to use this successfully.
That's a real bummer! You can't access another Vista disc can you and install with your key from it?

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