Installing to a nvme M2 drive problems

I installed an M.2 nvme drive in a Lenovo m710s and wanted to install knoppix 9.1 to it but am having some issues.

The flash installer doesn't see it as a hard drive or a flash drive.

It does get seen by knoppix as /dev/nvme0n1, so running flash knoppix manually with "flash-knoppix /dev/nvme0n1" it errors after trying to do the dos format with the message

"mkdosfs: unable to open /dev/nvme0n11: No such file or directory"

The system refers to the first nvme partition as /dev/nvme0n1p1.

Somehow I think that if it doesn't see it on /dev/sda* that it's not going to work properly.

Guess I'll have to wait for the next version to use one of these new fangled M2 drives.