0929 Windows booted up, and I remembered I have a working linux flasher. I'll flash from windows for now I finish the task with more likelihood.
0931 I have the phone connected. It's set up for a factory partition map. I remember the way I got it to work was either modifying the factory map .... or just using fastboot. I also remember that I unlocked the bootloader using the factory rom, so I'll flash that, reboot to linux, and try to remember: "just use fastboot to flash a system image" .