Reinstalling from Tiger Disk without a DVD/CD drive

I have an iBook g4 with a missing dvd/cd drive. I have my Tiger installation disk i want to use to create a clean reinstall of Tiger. What's the best way to achieve this?

You could install the OS on the computer with the missing optical drive via Target Disc Mode from another firewire enabled computer. Shut down the iBook with the missing optical drive. Connect both computers with a firewire cable. Start the iBook while pressing and holding the 'T' key until you see the firewire symbol on a blue background. Insert your install DVD into the other computer with the working optical drive and restart that computer holding down the 'C' key until the gray screen with Apple logo appears. Begin the installation procedure until you get to the "select the volume to install OS X" and select your iBook drive. Then just proceed with the installation.
After your installation is complete, drag the iBooks hard drive image that is mounted on your desktop to the trash. Shut down the iBook by holding the power button down for a few seconds, then disconnect the firewire cable and power up your iBook. You should be in business! Remember to do all of your updates after the install with Software Update. You can actually do that even before you leave target disc mode from your other computer if you'd like.
Oh.. one more thing. before you shut down or restart your helper computer (the one with the working optical drive), go to system preferences and select startup disk. Choose that computers drive to restart the computer.
Hope that helps!
Randy
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