Got my new ssd installed in the deck, booted into recovery and started reimagining. It was going fine for a while then I started to see a lot of errors and it hung for a while.
But after sitting at the above image for a while it started moving again. Now it is stuck again, and for far longer than before. Is it safe to turn it off and go back into recovery?
Update: rebooted and it booted into Steam OS, and is updating.
Update 2: after the reboot and update I am not signed in and installing games.
Yes, it should be safe to force a shutdown, and then re-doing the re-image.
I rebooted and it booted into SteamOS!