My powermac g5's hard drive failed, so I got a new hard drive with osx 10.5

I got a new hard drive for my powermac g5 after the other one failed. This one has osx 10.5 on it, I'm just wondering how im meant to install it, I'm not sure whether it will work straight away or whether I will have to install something or other with it. Thanks.

Hi-
As long as the drive is a SATA drive, and as long as the install was done on a PPC machine, or at least, with a Mac OS Extended format, the drive should be plug and play:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/PMG5HDDIY.pdf

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