Need to re-load OS but am getting "reboot" message

I gave my neighbor's son (16 y.o.) my old (2001) PowerMac desktop. It may have had Tiger on it but, anyway, for whatever reason, he needs to re-load the OS but all he gets is a gray screen and a message telling him to re-boot the computer. I have my old copy of Snow Leopard that I can put on the Mac, but need to know how to do this, given the issues I just described. Any suggestions of knowledge base articles you can point me to will be appreciated. Thanks.

If they're grey discs and not the ones that came with that Mac, they won't work.
A retail Leopard disc (black with a big X on it) would work, provided the Mac meets the minimum requirements for Leopard;
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard requires:
A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or Power PC G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor
512 MB memory or more
A DVD drive for installation
9 GB of available disk space or more
OS9 or Classic mode is not supported in Leopard.
The specs for 2001 indicate that only one model introduced in July 2001 meets the processer spec.
Any other models from that year won't boot anything later than Tiger, and once again that must be a proper retail disc (also black with the big X).
Similarly with Panther (Cant remember what the Panther retail disc looks like) or Jaguar.
As the original OSs were OS9 and OS X 10.0.4 it's unlikely you could get replacements from Apple, and frankly 10.0 isn't worth the bother. I found it barely useable.
For the record, the discs that ship with the Mac are part of the package and should be retained and passed on with the Mac.

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