Basically trying to put OSX back onto my mini mac after running XP as its an intel based system. Rather than using boot camp i did a clean install and removed all of osx and ran it purely as a windows os system

right now im trying to put os back on, but i seem to have lost the osx discs that came with it, well i have CD2 but not CD1, here is my problem

i have several version of OSX that i've borrowed from friends but all of them say "cannot install software on this computer"

i've searched the net and it appears you cannot install OSX variants from other Mac models i.e macbook or macbook pro. Find this very odd that they make so many variants of the operating system

so is there anyway from this to get osx from these cd 's i have here

at the moment i have a mac mini which is completely useless

i guess worst case i could put windows back on.