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It works both ways you suggested, and more.
If you can boot ANY OS X you can go to the Application "Installer" and then select the package "OSInstall.mpkg" from the folder System>Installation>Packages and this will bypass any machine specific tests that might halt a regular installer that's looking for "new world" or "DVD enabled" etc. You can use machine specific CD's or DVD's to install OS X to ANY Mac or external volume this way.
Once you get it installed, you'll need to use XPF from either OS 9.x or OS X to install the necessary extensions for old-world support. You can also either clone drives using Carbon Copy Cloner or by using the Restore function of OS X Disk Utility (10.3+ only). I suppose if your CD wasn't reading properly from the CD-ROM unit (which is common on unsupported installations), you could boot the installer CD and go to Disk Utility and Restore the Installation CD itself to a HD and then boot the HD to install? I've never done this, but I have done this for DVD images when I don't have a DVD unit. It works fine, but is really unnecessary. If you can boot OS X in any manner, you can use Installer to even install from .dmg files of Installer CD's or DVD's (often available on peer-to-peer networks). If you're really good, you could actually install OS X without ever having the physical CD or DVD. In OS 9.x there is a utility called Disk Copy 6.4 or 6.5b11 than can mount .dmg files in OS 9.x. You could then clone the mounted .dmg to a partition and boot this partition without ever having a CD or DVD. (This may be simplistic and doing this is reality may involve locking the partition to "read-only" or other tricks?) Probably simpler to burn a bootable OS X .dmg CD in OS 9.x using Toast 4.13 Deluxe or 5.0 Titanium.
If you can boot OS X you can simply mount the .dmg file and launch Installer and navigate to the OSInstall.mpkg package and you're installing without any hardware specific testing. AFAIK all the machine specific OS X CD's & DVD's still contain a full System and not a machine-specific subset that would impair any other machine. I may check on this later just to be 100% certain, but I'm fairly confident this is true.
Good luck! Kris Tilford
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