Re-installing system with no discs

I need to re-initialize and re-install the system in a Mac Pro I just inherited at work. It didn't travel too well from the office it came from to where I am. I want to install OSX 10.8 but since that's a download only, how can I do that? The orignal system discs didn't come with the tower. Do I have to get a set of OSX discs and then upgrade to 10.8 afterwards?
thanks for any help.
NEZ

NEZizza wrote:
... Do I have to get a set of OSX discs and then upgrade to 10.8 afterwards?
It is best to obtain the original DVDs that shipped with the Mac Pro. You may be able to obtain them from Apple for a nominal fee. A corporation may have purchased an institutional deployment license; in that case there may not have been any DVDs included with their Macs.
If you elect to purchase OS X "Snow Leopard" you can buy it from Apple:
Online (US): http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Online (UK): http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Elsewhere: call the phone number in the Apple Online Store
After installing Snow Leopard you can upgrade to Mountain Lion, by purchasing it in the App Store.

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