mini.iso for trixie - nvme support absent?

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

When I boot Trixie 6.8.12 kernel from nvme:
# lsmod | grep nvme | sort
nvme                   57344  15
nvme_core             188416  16 nvme
t10_pi                 20480  1 nvme_core
#
When booting the Trixie NET installer, it reports cannot find the only available
storage, and installation target, an NVME stick with over a dozen distros already
installed. From smartctl:
Model Number:                       Patriot M.2 P300 512GB
Serial Number:                      P300...
Firmware Version:                   400fAA12
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1e4b
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x000000
Total NVM Capacity:                 512,110,190,592 [512 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      0
NVMe Version:                       1.4
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          512,110,190,592 [512 GB]
Namespace 1 Utilization:            50,339,646,464 [50.3 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Local Time is:                      Thu Jul 18 01:30:33 2024 EDT
Firmware Updates (0x14):            2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0006):   Format Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x001f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat

Is this a known transient Trixie problem? A bug that needs reporting? Where would
I find the modules the initialized installer asks to locate from some USB device
or elsewhere? Are these questions only answerable on debian-devel list?
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Felix Miata