Yes, installing first in another system and just moving the drive should work - might also want to choose a similar and video card for the base install box and consider doing a full source install (including nice kernel sources depending on distro) in case the kernel might need something later.

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> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> From: ejs@shubes.net
> Subject: Re: Dead Firewall!
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:51:36 -0700
> 
> der.hans wrote:
> > Am 27. Jan, 2009 schwätzte farli so:
> > 
> >> Geez!  Its been so long that I dont even remember how to find out what
> >> the hard drive is!
> > 
> > Pentium 200 with no USB, so the drive is almost certainly and IDE drive.
> > It's for a firewall, so pretty well any old IDE drive at this point will
> > be large enough to hold the necessary OS.
> > 
> > ciao,
> > 
> > der.hans
> > 
> 
> Sounds like we might want to do as Shawn suggested then. I'll have a 
> spare PC we can connect/mount the IDE drive in, then install from CD, 
> then move the IDE drive back to its home and run setup. I'm assuming we 
> can remove/reinstall the HDD in whatever boxen this is.
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> 
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