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Dec 10, 2013 3:35 PM in response to Rob Sivakby Deborah Terreson,As long as you are aiming for Classic running under Tiger you should be just fine - unless there's some issue with G5's that I am unaware of..
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Dec 11, 2013 7:06 AM in response to Rob Sivakby a brody,★HelpfulYou have two choices with a PowerMac G5. An external Firewire hard drive, or a second internal SATA hard drive of slow enough speed for its SATA bus. Mac OS 9 must come from the original PowerMac G5 installation discs as one of the installer programs included on those discs. Once you have done the proper restore, you can upgrade the Mac OS X on that hard drive to 10.4.11, but no further. If you lost those discs, call AppleCare and see if they still have them. If not, finding them will be hard unless you can find an Apple user group near you that has users who still have G5s.
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Dec 11, 2013 9:06 AM in response to a brodyby a brody,★HelpfulAdditional places you may find the discs are here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5648015
But there you have to be sure they understand you've done the research to determine the age of the discs you want, and what it says on them. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2191