Between Linux, dosemu, and FreeDOS, I believe we can provide a completely free infrastructure for installing Windows, which is a very pleasing concept :-).
The one big question mark that I have with this approach is hardware RAID cards. We have /several/ that 1) don't have linux drivers or 2) have really old linux drivers that only work on outdated kernels.
I've been installing windows onto these boxes with unattended just fine. You do the txtsetup.oem dance, and you are good to go, since dos is just using BIOS to talk to the disk (as I understand it).
Then I tried kickstarting RH9 onto these boxes (we are using them in a multiboot setup, with 2 windows partitions, and one linux partition). I did finally get the driver module wedged into the kickstart boot disks, but I am stuck running an older kernel, because these (binary-only) drivers are only provided for that one.
So, if you do decide to go to an "only Linux" setup, one thing to keep in mind are these RAID drivers, and how you will be able to add them to the linux boot disk.
Jordan
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