Installing with DVD, even though I don't have a DVD drive?

Is there a way to work-around the fact that I don't have a DVD drive on my G4 to install Tiger from the DVD that I have on hand?
Just started a new job, and they have the Tiger DVD disks, but there's only one mac in the whole office that has a dvd drive. Yet, there are several with Tiger installed.
How did they do it? No one who was here during the installation is here now ... go figure.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to sound as if that were critical. I bet they have sound or recording software/hardware as the main concern like you do. A local user here has had problems moving some of his stuff (and recording from vinyl) with his OS X installations.
I think I may have been confused with your earlier post about the drive. There should be no problem going directly to 10.4 at all. I thought that you wanted to install an OS onto the DVD drive and it needed to be 10.2 or above. This looks like a balancing act: you need a suitable OS on the drive to put the OS on the computer; but you need a drive on the computer to put the OS on the drive.
A solution might be to find another computer with a DVD drive; or to go up in steps: Jaguar or Panther come on CDROM disks so could be installed on the computer then on the drive (or directly onto the drive without installing on the computer).
There was an exchange program to get Tiger on CDROMs but I am not sure if that is finished (or if there are any in Aus.).

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