Restore from sparse images

I have a cloned Tiger HD on a sparse image made with Carbon Copy Cloner.
It resides on an EX HD.
What would be the best way to get the entire contents of the disk image back on the computer that now has a clean drive?
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Tom Murray2

Was able to clone back to the iMac by;
Placeing the sparse image on my functioning G5 Tower(OSX installed) with CCC.
Connect the iMac(with no operating system) to the Tower via firewire and start up in target disk mode.
On the Tower, open CCC.
Choose the image as source and navigate to the iMac, which now is mounted on the Tower desktop, as the destination.
Click clone.
Unfortunately, the iMac, again, does not get past the grey screen after start up. Which is why I cloned the HD in the first place.

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