I hate to say anything no knowing the full story. I was just installing.The initrd.gz off netinst CD does has depmod. If you use it then your ext4 module loads right? Without depmod you could edit the modules.dep et al files with nano and that should work too, if I remember correctly.
I had to copy ext2.ko using dd and a floppy, no fs modules in initrd to mount even minix. deb-inst told it found no kernel in netinst which it wanted. wtf?
busy box saves the day again right? i got it working. Sven Joachim wrote:
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.19.3-5 Severity: normal Unlike the modprobe utility from module-init-tools, busybox' version fails for built-in modules: