Upgrading G4 dual 800MHz 10.3

fairly new to the Mac world, I have a system that I got for cheap it originally had a password set and it was lost. I called and got the original OS X 10.3 discs sent to me and reinstalled. It's a Power Mac G4 dual 800MHz PPC Quicksilver and I was wondering about upgrading it to 10.4 from 10.3. I found a retail set of 10.4 will I be able to upgrade from those discs keeping the applications already installed on the system or will I loose those and if the retail set is not the discs I need which ones do I need and what exactly do I need to look for?

aa-r0n:
if there is a link that will explain how to back the 10.3.9 up
To backup/clone the entire volume you will need an external firewire HDD and a backup utility like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, or Disk Utility.
Creating a bootable clone with OS X Disk Utility
Clone HDD to external HDD using SuperDuper
• Connect external HDD to computer
• Power up HDD
• Start up computer
• Download and launch SuperDuper
• In the Copy field select your internal HDD
• To is your external HDD which will hold the backup/cone
• Using backup all files
• Click Options button
• Check Repair Disk Permissions on Source
• During copy Erase Destination HDD then copy from Source
• On successful completion Quit SuperDuper
• Click Copy and confirm
SuperDuper will take care of the rest.
cornelius

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