SSD drive not available after install

I have swapped out the internal ssd to a new M.2 NVMe drive (1TB instead of 250GB) on my macbook pro A1502.

The ssd is not found when I try to restore with network since the internal flash/boot memory does not support the drive (default os=mavericks so I guess that the mac is from 2013).

The ssd is found when I use a USB memory installer drive with catalina and I can choose the ssd to install catalina on. I do not understand why I need a network at this time since I thought that it would be sufficient with the USB but ok I have a wifi network available.

The installations seems to be done after 30-40 minutes and the mac reboots.

I get to the same view as when I started with alt key during startup and choosing the catalina installer usb option after the reboot and I get a flashing folder icon if I reboot the mac without the USB installer drive.

So my conclusion is that I do not seem to have a working bootable device and I can see that my ssd drive now contains around the same amount of data now as the usb drive, almost 9GB is used. Like the installer was getting the installer copy of catalina to the drive but skipped the installation. It is also weird that it uses the network connection to get the catalina installer file when I have a USB drive with catalina installer.

I can not use APFS on the SSD since then the installer does not work and I am using GUID partition map and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) now...I can see the ssd drive as an option to install to with these settings.

Anyone else running into this scenario before?

BR Henrik