I have now configured diskless booting over the network for my Myth system.
It was remarkably easy as well. Used this link, and it worked straight away using my Toshiba A5 laptop as a testbed, in about 1 hour. Really really impressed.
Only gotcha is that the diskless options do not appear in the Mythbuntu Control Centre on versions 9.10. Spent a while trying to identify the source of that issue, before finding on the mythbuntu foums that it is a known issue at the minte.
The frontend machine in one of the bedrooms is a Athlon XP 2000 with an Nvidia Geforce 4300MX hooked up via Svideo, so the graphical display did not show on first boot.
No problem, login to a console as the normal user and execute the following command sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-96
Once installed edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (or copy one across if there isn't one) and change the driver to nvidia if it isn't already.
Reboot, and you should have a graphical front end.
Only problem now for me on a Sunday evening, is that I no longer have a wired mouse in the house to configure Mythbuntu Control Centre!
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