No DVD player- what do I do ?

We have an iMac G4, running 10.2.8 We want to install 10.4 Tiger but our machine does not have a DVD player installed. All the Tiger loads I have seen are DVD format so what can I do ? Is there a DVD player for the 10.2.8 ? or another way of loading Tiger ?
Thanks.
4jbl7

You can use the Apple Media Exchange program to obtain the Tiger installation discs on CD-ROM.
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchangev4.pdf

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