Updating to Jaguar from 9.2; but no DVD drive

My Granny has a B/W G3 Mac OS 9.2 and it has no DVD drive. I have a Jaguar install DVD.
I also have a iMac G5 iSight with SuperDrive on it. I am told you can use a FireWire cable to use my iMac as a host or something like that. How do I do that?
Thanks
~Kevin~

Hi, Kevin -
I believe the retail versions of OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) all came on CDs; DVDs for retail purchases did not begin until OSX 10.3 (Panther).
This would indicate that your OSX 10/2 on DVD might be one that shipped with a machine, rather than a retail version, and so is model-specific. If so, it probably will not work for your Granny's B&W G3. The retail ones have universal installers, capable of installing that OS on any Mac supported by Apple for that OS version.
You can often get retail versions of older OSX versions from sites like these -
http://store.yahoo.com/hardcoremac/index.html - Apple Reseller
http://www.applerescue.com/
Although the B&W G3 models do have a firewire port, they are very limited in use for Firewire Target Disk Mode connections - the B&W G3 can be the Host machine, but not the Target machine. It is a hardware limitation, no workaround possible.
Article #58583 - Firewire Target Disk Mode
I'm not sure that installing over firewire (via Firewire Target Disk Mode) would work anyway - OS installers usually install the appropriate complement of files based on the machine whose OS it is booted to (including the OS on a CD in that machine), hence may not install any model-specific files needed by the Target machine if that machine is dis-similar to the Host machine.

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