SL won't mount via USB disc drive

Hi there
I am desperate to load SL. My internal disc drive is broken so I use a Ritmo external trouble is I pop in the SL disc and it does not recognize there is a disc there. I have popped in other discs with no problems... tried to find it through disc utility not there.... I copied the SL disc on my PC to a thumb drive and popped it in but the format did not work..... how am I going to get SL onto my Macbook! Any help appreciated......

One way are another you are going to need to find a Mac that will read the disk. If you can gain access to an appropriately equipped Mac or PC for each, then you still have these install options:
1. Use [firewire target disk mode|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661].
2. Use the [remote install method|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/21219.html].
3. Clone the installer DVD to an external drive; attach it to your machine; and install using the clone.

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