Installing on a 500gb hard drive, in a PowerMac G5

I have no way of finding out the password to get through. I am doing a clean install of Mac OS X v10.3.2, using a pc keyboard at the moment.
C-key isn't responding, so I held down alt. I am dead end with  this firmware password protection. Help!!!

The C key thing isn't firmware password protection (or you'd see it asking for a password), it's a matter of the very basic computer system running at pre-OS installation not understanding a non-Mac keyboard.  Sometimes third party devices will work after the OS is running, but at pre-OS time you really need  the parts that came with the computer originally.  Maybe there's an answer other than this, but I don't know it.

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