Impossible to restore Air from disk?

[NewGenAdam]

Because you can only plug the external dvd drive in DIRECTLY to the USB.
Hence there are no free ports to plug the hard drive...

Help! How do I restore from an HDD?

[Veinticinco]

Because you can only plug the external dvd drive in DIRECTLY to the USB.
Hence there are no free ports to plug the hard drive...

Help! How do I restore from an HDD?
Create a bootable copy of Leopard on your portable HDD (I use an old brick iPod) using Disk Utility and your Leopard DVD.