[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.