Stuck on "Waiting for installation server..." during netinstall

Well, you are the second person in a few days with an issue with netinstall on Linux.

And also in the other case the user was adamant that It was just a plain Linux, with no conflicting services running or settings that could be an obstacle for netinstall.

It could be a coincidence, and your case could be due to the Mikrotik device malfunctioning, but I am usually very skeptic about coincidences.

In that case using a VM solved the problem, see: