Hello anybody know how to flash debian to EMMC on an Orange Pi 3G IOT B?

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I can't seem to get it to work. I always get these errors in the terminal when running the spi flash tool that they recommend:

Scanning USB port...
Search usb, timeout set as 3600000 ms

and then eventually an S_TIMEOUT. I think my thinkpad is not even detecting the orange pi at all through usb. Anybody have experience with this. The official documentation is really bad. I also seem to get this on startup of the flash tool:

QThread::setPriority: Cannot set priority, thread is not running
"05-14-2024"
QObject::moveToThread: Cannot move objects with a parent
4

Lsusb, or look at the journal for the kernel enumerating the board when you plug it in.

Can the board just boot off of a usb or microsd live-image? From there, it could shove an image into its own /dev/mmcblkX.

I bought board months ago but never figured it out. It feels like the company has abandoned the product and all the support forums for it are filled with bots talking about their favorite blog