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Welcome to Mint AlienQueen
My experience of PXE is limited...
But tell us more about what goes wrong
And have you had any success with Gutsy

Hi,

I'm also trying to do a network install of Linux Mint using PXE (my laptop doesn't have a CD drive), but without success. Works fine with other distros (eg: ubuntu, gentoo).

Here's what I did in my attempt to get it working:
Mount LinuxMint-4.0.iso
Copy all files to my tftpboot directory
Add LinxuMint my pxelinux.cfg/default file

It loads the initrd and kernel, but after a few seconds I get kicked to a busybox prompt.. I could not find the preseed/ubuntu.seed, so I can't passe it in the APPEND statement. Also, I highly suspect that the system doesn't know how to get isolinux/filesystem.squash once PXE is done..

Hope that made a little bit of sense.

Coping all files to tftpboot won't help. Loader(pxe) downloads (via tftp) only kernel and inirtd.
Ways to solve this problem:
+add needed files to inird(but you need huge amount of ram because inird is copied directly to ram) and modify init
+mount files via nfs
+install mint on other machine (np. VirtualPC), copy to your laptop and install grub on your disk (you can install ubuntu then delete it and then copy mint (easiest way to get grub for you;))