diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 90f3c99..e07258c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ Suitable for running containerized workloads on either bare metal or virtual mac
   - [nvidia-container-toolkit](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/sample-workload.html) - latest toolkit which supports both root and rootless podman containers and CDI
   - [nvidia container selinux policy](https://github.com/NVIDIA/dgx-selinux/tree/master/src/nvidia-container-selinux) - allows using `--security-opt label=type:nvidia_container_t` for some jobs (some will still need `--security-opt label=disable` as suggested by nvidia)
 - Optional [ZFS versions](#tag-matrix) add:
-  - [sanoid/syncoid dependencies](https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) - [see below](#zfs) for details
   - [ZFS driver](https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore-kmods) - latest driver (currently pinned to 2.2.x series)
+  - [sanoid/syncoid dependencies](https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) - [see below](#zfs) for details
+    - note: on `ucore-minimal` images, only `pv` is installed
 - Disables Zincati auto upgrade/reboot service
 - Enables staging of automatic system updates via rpm-ostreed
 - Enables password based SSH auth (required for locally running cockpit web interface)
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ This image builds on `ucore-minimal` but adds drivers, storage tools and utiliti
   - intel wifi firmware - CoreOS omits this despite including atheros wifi firmware... hardware enablement FTW
   - [mergerfs](https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs)
   - [snapraid](https://www.snapraid.it/)
+  - usbutils(and pciutils) - technically pciutils is pulled in by open-vm-tools in ucore-minimal
 
 ### `ucore-hci`
 
diff --git a/fedora-coreos/Containerfile b/fedora-coreos/Containerfile
index c32db33..36e9fa1 100644
--- a/fedora-coreos/Containerfile
+++ b/fedora-coreos/Containerfile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ARG NVIDIA_TAG="${NVIDIA_TAG}"
 ARG ZFS_TAG="${ZFS_TAG}"
 ARG KMOD_SRC="${KMOD_SRC:-ghcr.io/ublue-os/ucore-kmods:${COREOS_VERSION}}"
 
+COPY --from=${KMOD_SRC} /rpms/kmods/*.rpm /tmp/rpms/
 COPY --from=${KMOD_SRC} /rpms/kmods/nvidia/*.rpm /tmp/rpms/nvidia/
 COPY --from=${KMOD_SRC} /rpms/kmods/zfs/*.rpm /tmp/rpms/zfs/
 
diff --git a/fedora-coreos/install.sh b/fedora-coreos/install.sh
index 3554b8b..f0559f4 100755
--- a/fedora-coreos/install.sh
+++ b/fedora-coreos/install.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ sed -i 's@enabled=1@enabled=0@g' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-cisco-openh264.repo
 # inspect to see what RPMS we copied in
 find /tmp/rpms/
 
-## CONDITIONAL: install ZFS (and sanoid deps)
+rpm-ostree install /tmp/rpms/ublue-os-ucore-addons-*.rpm
+
+## CONDITIONAL: install ZFS
 if [[ "-zfs" == "${ZFS_TAG}" ]]; then
     rpm-ostree install pv /tmp/rpms/zfs/*.rpm
     # for some reason depmod ran automatically with zfs 2.1 but not with 2.2
diff --git a/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh b/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
index 6596b44..fbb7918 100755
--- a/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
+++ b/ucore/install-ucore-minimal.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ if [[ "-zfs" == "${ZFS_TAG}" ]]; then
       mhash \
       perl-Capture-Tiny \
       perl-Config-IniFiles \
+      perl-Data-Dumper \
       perl-Getopt-Long \
+      perl-Sys-Hostname \
       pv
     # for some reason depmod ran automatically with zfs 2.1 but not with 2.2
     depmod -A ${KERNEL}
diff --git a/ucore/packages.json b/ucore/packages.json
index 6324fbe..413ec2f 100644
--- a/ucore/packages.json
+++ b/ucore/packages.json
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
                 "iwlegacy-firmware",
                 "iwlwifi-dvm-firmware",
                 "iwlwifi-mvm-firmware",
+                "pciutils",
                 "snapraid",
+                "usbutils",
                 "xdg-dbus-proxy",
                 "xdg-user-dirs"
             ],