How do we get this up and running?

Hi guys
A mate's son has just obtained a G3 iMac, I think a Bondi, and father and son are even bigger technological hooligans than I am, so we would be grateful for any help!
He has no startup disks.
I have all the disks that came with my Snow iMac back in 2001, the OSX disks that I got with the voucher shortly thereafter, and my Panther disks.
For various reasons too complicated to go into here I'm unlikely to be able to go and sort this myself, so I need to give him what he needs along with idiot proof instructions.
So, what disks do I need to give him, and how should I tell him to proceed?
Many thanks for any help.
Hely

Hely,
Well if you just look at it you can tell if it's a tray or slot loader. The slots have a slot in the front where the CD goes in. If it's a slot does it have firewire? (look on the side)
Trays have a tray. Hold down the mouse and push the start button. Does it start up? Tray come out? Screen light up? Flashing ? mark?
If all that's OK then start it up in open firmware:
"Start the target machine while holding down the O, F, Option, and Command keys. (O, F stands for Open Firmware.)
3. Wait until you see:
Open Firmware, 1.0.5
To continue booting the MacOS type:
BYE
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT
ok
0 >
(This prompt will vary depending on the version of OF running on the machine. For example, some newer machines, OF version is 2.0.x.)"
That first number is the firmware version for the machine.
Now refer to this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
I you're thinking of trying to load Panther in it you'll definitely need to upgrade the firmware. Especially if its a slot loader. If it's a slot and you try to load 10.2 and above the machine will lose video and will be hard to resuscitate. The firmware needs to be 4.1.9.
Also is the Panther the retail version? Black with silver lettering? If so it will work.
The catch here is that you need to have an operating system in the machine to do this. 9.1 to 10.1
Post back.
Richard
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