yes it should work Ive done this a few times due to various issues like a broken bios not allowing boot off a floppy or cdrom. It should not effect your security any worse than doing it straight off, the debian hardening howto should be followed to make it secure afterwards.
regards Steven -----Original Message----- From: Steve Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2002 7:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Security on an old machine I have an old 486 without a cdrom in it. If I pull the hard drive and stick it in another machine to perform the install will this work? And if it does work will it make the system any less secure?
