I bought my g5 at a pawn shop. How can I get the proper disks for my system?

All I get now is the apple icon when starting my computer why is that?

All I get now is the apple icon when starting my computer why is that?
Means the file system has become corrupted.  It could be because of a bad hd.  Hd's average life is five years.
Getting a leopard disk is close enough. Has all g5 drivers.  you will miss bonus software that came with machine   ... could have been iLife & some Games, etc.   Not a biggie.
  Shutdown your machine.  Hold down the shift key.  Poweron.  Wait awhile Wait awhile while you harddrive
is being checked.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
You need to get into single use mode.
This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
Basically, you hold down the command-s key then  powering on your machine. The command key has a little apple symbol on the lower left. It is between the alt/option key and the space bar. On a PC keyboard, it will be the windows key, I think.  The boot up will take longer than normal.   The filesystem will be checked and repaired.
# reboot  your mac
shutdown -r now

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