Help a PPC user out

Hi all, I just got a G4 cube. I am upgrading the harddrive, and I want to install tiger...only problem is, I need a PPC mac

tl;dr: anyone in the orange county, CA, area have a G4 era mac capable of running tiger that I can use to fw disk install tiger? PM PLEASE!!! I've been working on this for months!

Story: my buddy gave me his old cube for free. I got a monitor, keyboard, and mouse all from the same era. I installed a new HD so it would be more quiet and have more storage.


I upgraded the original HD using a disc so I have a working copy of tiger. But I can't install on the new HD; its blank, so it only accepts bootable HD tiger CDs...which are like 100 dollars. I can't firewire install using the disc I have, because its a PPC OS, and the intel macs won't even load it.

Thus, I need a PPC mac to install Tiger using FW.

So please, if you have a late model PPC that runs Tiger or later....any way we can meet up so I can firewire disc install?

edit: wrote leopard once on accident so I fixed it

 

iThinkergoiMac, I can't boot off my install disc because it is a DVD and the cube has a CD drive.

Apologies to everyone above; I meant to install tiger, not leopard, and I wrote it wrong on that first line. That what I get for typing late at night.

Thanks for the tips.

 

hmmm..still not working....I get the "search for boot drive" screen with a "rescan circle arrow" box and "right arrow proceed" box.

Thanks for the tip I'm much closer now...My dvd drive is an external connected by USB to a mac mini, and I think that could be a problem...I'll try and find someone with an internal DVD player to boot from.

thanks again, that was very helpful.