Want to switch hard drives but dont have my copy of OSX with me. what 2 do?

i just got my seagate 500 7200 in today, and im abotu to do the install, but i jsut thought about it, i need osx disc to put on to the new drive correct? and if i do, im screwed im on a tour and no where near my home where lies my osx disk. is there any possible way to get my hard drive in without a leopard disk?
ALSO im doing a time machine back up right now, what exaclty does it back up, and how do i load my time machine back back up files back into my new hardrive?

CARBON COPY CLONER-help wrote:
A very good solution in a scenario such as this is to use disk images as the medium of your backup. A disk image is a single file residing on your hard drive that contains the entire contents of another hard drive (except for the free space). When you want to access the contents of that filesystem, you double-click on the disk image to mount the disk image as if it were an external drive attached to the machine. Carbon Copy Cloner 3 leverages disk images to provide you the flexibility of storing several complete, bootable* backups on a single shared external hard drive. (* Disk images themselves are not bootable, but you can mount them and restore their content to a physical hard drive to produce a bootable, exact replica of the original).
anybody have directions on how to do this, this seems to be the way to not have to lose your whole hard drive and still be able to boot the cloned HD from disk image. anybody?

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