I have successfully booted ubuntu 10.10 off of the internet using netbootme.me.
This is a really neat and unfortunately a project that is no longer maintained.
I am using the tftp dhcp method.
In a nutshell, I have told my openwrt-based router to tftp boot the netbootme.kpxe from the specified directory and that in turn goes out to the internet and boots a very basic boot iso from another tftp server tftp.netbootme.me.
Then I am given a choice of other bootable iso's to boot from and for this test I chose ubuntu 10.10 installer which was completely successful. The tftp server method is very unreliable, so it takes a couple tries to get the basic bootable iso from the internet after the kpxe is loaded.
This kpxe is based off of gpxe which is again, no longer maintained. The successor is called iPXE which is the same thing as gpxe and then some. I will be hosting my own tftp server with iPXE on a bootable USB drive so that I may boot my own iso's from the internet.
netboot.xyz
http://netbootxyz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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