MacBook White - Possible to reload OSX from an external harddrive?

Ok heres the problem, I own a MacBook White (late 2006) my harddrive and optical drive have failed, I have replaced my harddrive but I'm currently in a pickle with the optical drive (im a university student and funds and time are not on my side).
My Question is can I copy the OSX Install disk onto an external harddrive and boot/install from that? If so how can this be done?
thanks for any help and advice received.
Jay.

Thanks for the reply, I'll be using a PC with windows XP to create the partition and disk image...
I assume this will work fine? also from what I can see on that page I will only need to partition 4gb of the Harddrive for Tiger...
So again assume I could use a flashdrive with the required space.
Thanks again for the advice

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