Installing Mythbuntu to a USB Flash drive?

[stiev3]

I'm not sure if this is possible or how to do it really, but would I be able to install mythbuntu to a permanent usb flash drive? I'm not looking for a portable solution, I just want to keep this in my frontend. N00b intuition is telling me to attempt a LiveCD install and point it at that drive, but that intuition is also telling me it's not that simple by a long shot.

The goal is to have a frontend without a harddisk. Is this sort of thing limited to VIA EPIA etc... systems?

[road2elysium]

I'm not sure if this is possible or how to do it really, but would I be able to install mythbuntu to a permanent usb flash drive? I'm not looking for a portable solution, I just want to keep this in my frontend. N00b intuition is telling me to attempt a LiveCD install and point it at that drive, but that intuition is also telling me it's not that simple by a long shot.

The goal is to have a frontend without a harddisk. Is this sort of thing limited to VIA EPIA etc... systems?

It is indeed possible to install to a solid-state HD, use an IDE-Flash adapter, or even a diskless system with netbooting.

Here is an upstream MythTV links you might find helpful:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend

Note that you could just use the LiveCD frontend program loaded from your USB flash as well.