The Netinstall ISO installs Linux Mint based on Debian Trixie via the internet. Most packages are downloaded from a Debian server and my personal server hosting the Mint packages (mintppc.nl).
The net installer can be used to install Linux Mint arm64 bare metal (directly onto a computer’s hard drive) as well as in a virtual machine like Parallels Desktop and UTM. The latter is a free program, which can be downloaded from the net.
Setting up a Shared folder in UTM is explained here. You basically have to add an entry in /etc/fstab. One thing I had to do additionally is to change the owner of the /mnt/utm folder to myself (as root) withchown -R your_user_name:your_user_name /mnt/utm
To switch consoles during a netinstall in Debian-Installer in UTM you have to use the key combination fn+ctrl+alt (all together) and then F1, F2, F3 or F4. So if you want to see the log console, you do fn+ctrl+alt together and then F4.
Setting up Linux Mint arm64 in Parallels Desktop:
Parallels does not allow a user to run the install script directly from the CD-ROM directory. The installation sets the “user” flag on the CD-ROM entry in the /etc/fstab. The problem is that the ‘user’ flag implies the ‘noexec’ mount flag. That means when the user loads the ISO image to install the Parallels VM guest tools, the user can’t run the install script directly from the CD-ROM directory. Instead, one has to copy the whole tree of the prl-tools-lin-arm.iso image to the user directory and then run the install script.
Parallels info:
https://kb.parallels.com/129740