What OS will work on PowerMac G5

I just bought a Power Mac G5 and it came with no OS. I just installed a new 500 GIG hard drive and tried installing Snow Leopard. However the OS would not load. I did a little more research and found that only Intel base Mac can support OS X (Snow Leopard). So back to my original question what OS can I get for my PowerMac G5? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

I believe that those disks are upgrade disks and require an OS present to install.
To be precise, any retail OS X, 10.5x Leopard version can be used in a G5.
A G5 can use OS X up to 10.5.8.
For that matter, most all retail versions of OS X, 10.4x Tiger can be used in a G5. A possible exception would be a pre 10.4.2 OS X retail version in a dual core, Late 2005 G5, which would require 10.4.3 or later.
In 2003 and 2004 G5s, retail OS X, 10.3.9 Panther can be used.
Each machine has a minimum OS version which is dictated by production date.
Find out exactly what your machine is by entering the serial number here:
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
Find the minimum OS by model:
Power Macintosh G5 Models - EveryMac.com
OS X, system specific gray discs are tailored to a machine at production. Purchase of these types of discs are completely at your own risk and shouldn't be purchased without in depth research.

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