Installing 24.04 on / with /home on 2TB HDD - can't set HDD to /home

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I'm not new to Ubuntu and I'm pretty adept at solving issues with installation but this one has got me flummoxed. I want to install the OS on the SSD, and while I can set the SSD to / I cannot create an efi partition, only a VFAT partition which I asume will 'automagically' be regarded as the efi partition. What's really frustrating me is that I cannot set the 2TB HDD as the /home partition and can see no way of achieving this.

I'm also aware that this is a new installer, and it's not as intuitive as the old installer, and is a PITA as setting up to install in this way should be as easy as falling off a log.

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Does this help? Namely

Make the partition, add the esp and boot flags, and format it before you start the 24.04 installation. If you don't, you find the manual part will not have the critical things like selecting FAT for a fs, EFI for usage, etc.

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