This helped me get over my USB issue So thanks for the post!!

but then I ran into the “Error: failed to execute ‘claimInterface’ on ‘USBDevice’: unable to claim interface

Using an Ubuntu distribution the fwupd package has a bug So I ran this in terminal

sudo systemctl stop fwupd.service

And now I am flashing the factory images.

Install still in progress hopefully it goes smoothly from here

I found this solution using this link