Changed hard drive successfully, but still have a question.

I just replaced the internal hard drive in my Intel Mac Mini with a new 250G 2.5 inch SATA drive (Seagate Momentus). The original hard drive had died, after showing symptoms of illness for a while. The operation was a success, and everything is working fine, but the way I did it, it wouldn't have been possible without a second Mac, as described below. So I'm wondering if I'm missing some basic concept here. Seems like I should have been able to do it with just the install DVDs.
I was following an instructional video at this site, http://tinyurl.com/2fow2q, which had been recommended to me in an earlier thread of mine. That made the physical part of replacing the drive easy enough. When I went to boot up, though, with the DVD in the drive, it wouldn't recognize that there was any hard drive in the computer at all.
I assumed that I had broken something when I had the computer open. In desperation, I took a fairly new, almost unused firewire external drive that I had, and used my MacBook to set it up as a bootable drive. Then I connected it to the Mini, turned it on again, and was able to install OS X on the external drive. With the Mini working again, I used Disk Utility to look at the drives, and discovered that it did see the internal one, it just didn't know what format it was in. So I partitioned it as a bootable drive, turned off the Mini, disconnected the external drive, and booted it up again with the DVD. This time it saw the drive, and I was able to install OS X to it.
It has occurred to me that maybe I could have skipped a step by hooking the Mini up to my MacBook, booted it up in target mode, and then have used the MacBook's Disk Utility to partition the drive. But I didn't think of this at the time, and I was just assuming that I had physically broken something inside the Mini.
What I would like to know is if there was any way to do this without my second Mac. I had naively assumed that the DVD would allow the Mini to detect the drive, and just partition it properly before starting the rest of the install. I had bought the drive from Tiger Direct, and was sure that it wouldn't come properly formatted, but I thought the install would take care of that.
If I had bought from a dealer that specializes in Macs, like the one I linked to above, could I assume that the drive would have arrived already formatted for OS X? I notice that their advertising doesn't specifically say this. Are there other partitioning tools that would have allowed me to set up the drive without having another computer handy, say some other CD or DVD? I remember changing hard drives back when I used Windows, and getting a bootable CD which would partition the drive before you installed the OS, but nothing like that came with this one.
Any advice welcome. As things turned out, I found a solution, but it became obvious that I hadn't known everything I needed to ahead of time.

if you were to get hold of a hard disk caddie (carrier) such as:
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-5-SATA-HDD-Hard-Drive-External-Enclosure-Caddy-1K_W0QQ itemZ220335852761QQcmdZViewItem
then your mac would just see it as an external drive and you would be able to reformat/partition it as you see fit.

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