Third Party DVD Drive to Install Tiger

Can a third party DVD drive be used to install Tiger? I have an iBook G3 with a CD ROM drive I would like to install Tiger on.

I can't tell you, as my D2 DVD burnt out quicker than a candle burning at both ends, but of these...
http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10014
It'd have to be the one with Firewire at least... just don't know what's happened to LaCie in the last couple of years.
I'd ask OWC about these...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MRBFWU2D115/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MRFWU2D115/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/EZ%20Quest/K18560/

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