Newly installed osx 10.5.6 drive not showing up in G5

I installed osx 10.5.6 on a drive because my G5 doesn't have a working dvd drive. The installation went as usual but when inserted into my G5 I get a blue folder with a Finder/? icon.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chas

Which G5? If not Intel-based, it won't. How did you install it? Using what?

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