Reinstall a MacBook Pro with a dead graphics card?

I have a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 Inch. Its graphics card died. I want to do a clean install of OS X Mavericks. However, if I do this, screen sharing will go off, and I will be blind during the installation. How can I do a clean install?
If I connnect the hard drive externally, then it will get the wrong drivers during the installation, if I do it via Target Disk Mode, same thing.
I have a 2007 MacBook Pro 15 Inch. I know the drivers will be closer on this, but will they be the exact same?
Is voiceover during the installation good enough to navigate blindly? If it is, I could just go blind, and once its set up use voiceover to turn screen sharing on. I know voiceover will suffice once it is up and running to get screen sharing on. (I did it that way when the graphics card went out initially)
Is voiceover during the installation good enough to navigate blindly?
I am going to use this as a server, and I want to make absolutely sure that everything that I didn't put on is off.
It is already backed up.

I purchased my MacBook Pro that way last year (180 days same as cash). They were pretty slow approving the card even though I have good credit. I payed very close attention to the dates and made sure all was paid off before the end of the 180 days and had no issues. I was also careful about not charging anything else to the card until I paid off the MBP, gets a lot harder to understand and control what they consider the promotional amount paid when you start mixing in other purchases and payments for those.
For me it worked out great, Almost 6 months to pay is better than 1 big hit.

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