[TriLUG] Network install question

[Nicholas Chapel]

I'm an almost total Linux n00b, and am facing a bit of a dilemma with 
regard to an installation.  I'm attempting to install Linux on a 
slightly vintage PC which has a CD-ROM drive, but cannot read DVDs. I 
want to install a distro (CentOS 6) that I've downloaded and burned onto 
a bootable DVD, and I would really rather not download and burn six 
separate CD images of the same distro for the sake of this one computer. 
I do have a bootable CD of Damn Small Linux, however, that will boot 
just fine on the old PC. Would it be possible for me to put the DVD in 
my desktop machine, share it via NFS, boot the old computer using my DSL 
CD, mount the NFS share, and manually invoke the installer? I can figure 
out how to create and mount the NFS share, but how would I invoke the 
installation via that share? And if this /*/isn't* possible (or isn't 
the easiest way to go about the task), how would I best achieve the 
installation without ripping a DVD drive out of another computer and 
slapping it in the old box?  Any help or advice would be appreciated.