Installing Leopard on a New Hard Drive

I was told (at my local Apple store) that my hard drive was bad. So, I replaced the old one with a new 500 gig Sata drive, but I can't boot up from my Leopard install disc to put the OS back on my G5. If I hold either the C key, or the Option key down while booting, I get to the gray screen, then my Mac shuts off. What do I need to do? Thanks, Karen

I don't know what happened, but on G5s, even swapping hard drives, unless you reset nvram (or zap pram/nvram maybe) the system doesn't really recognize the new drive as it should, the device tree still thinks the old drive is there. Resetting nvram (best done in Open Firmware) refreshes the device tree.
That is also true when changing RAM, even if just moving DIMMs to other slots.
So first thing I would do is boot into Open Firmware (command option o f) and type
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
Then use Option key (or C to boot from Leopard DVD).
If that doesn't work, do you still have your original install disks and the one with Apple Hardware Test? to boot off AHT CD use the Option key and let it run an extended test.

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