Tiger to snow leopard with dvd sharing

i have a macbook running os 10.4.11 and i need snow leopard to sync my iphone 4. now i have bought snow leopard but my superdrive is broken. I have my friends macbook pro here running snow leopard but i cant figure out how to share his dvd drive with mine so i can update my software. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks all

Hi cballa82, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I don't think that is going to work, at least I never got it to work.
If they both don't have Firewire, which would make it easy with his in FireWire target disk mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
And yours booted with the option key, then I think your best bet is to pull your HD & put it in his for the install, fairly easy with MBs...
http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/
Find the MBs there & click on the Hard Drive link below it/then to see how.

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