Modifying Firewall Rules On a Unbooted System

If my subject wasn't clear, here is what I'm asking.
I want to know how I can "clear out", meaning restore to factory defaults, the firewall settings on an OS X Server installation. But not on the boot drive. My server has two drives. And as a last resort, I'd like to know how I can, while booted off it's backup drive, access the main boot drive and revert the firewall rules. That way I can boot off the main drive again, and have full access to the machine, where I can then go in and set it up again.
So I guess I need to know where on the filesystem these rules are stored. And if there is anything I have to do to flush old rules out. Again let me reiterate, I'm not talking about on a running OS X System, I'm talking about doing this to a secondary drive that isn't the boot drive.
Hopefully I won't need this information but just in case, best to have it on hand.
Thanks

If I understand you correctly...
On Leopard, it seems the firewall is started based on the presence of this file:
/etc/ipfilter/ipfwstate-on
If you remove it, the firewall should not be enabled allowing you to login and change the settings.

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