Fedora 44 indicates it will format first partition nvme0n1p1 as efi during installation

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Hello,

My machine has Win11 and Ubuntu as dual boot. I wanted to install Fedora 44 but stuck on manual partition and was afraid to continue. Below is the fdisk output.

Device              Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1       2048     206847    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2     206848     239615     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3     239616  850716671 850477056 405.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4  850716672  852211711   1495040   730M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5  852211712  852826111    614400   300M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p6  852826112  978655231 125829120    60G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p7  978655232 1965537279 986882048 470.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p8 1965537280 1999091711  33554432    16G Linux swap

I do not want to use /boot partition. So I mounted /, /home, and /boot/efi and only selected / to be reformated as ext4. Below picture shows the manual partition status.

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It says 1st partition will be formated as efi although I never setup that way. Web search mentioned that it will not format it but I wasn’t sure.

Any idea or experience how should I proceed?

Thanks

P.S. I am questioning the quality of the installer.