<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yup. I've done that successfully a number of times.<DIV><BR><DIV class="AppleOriginalContents"><DIV>On 1-Nov-05, at 11:39 AM, John McClernan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Gail,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Here's a workaround.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Connect the computer without a DVD drive to a Mac that does have a DVD drive by using a Firewire cable and start the no-DVD unit in target disk mode. Place the install DVD into the one that does have the DVD drive and run the installer, choosing the no-DVD unit as the target of the install.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As they say in France, viola!</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">John</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>