You can use any PC to interface with the cRIO - Driver Station & Dashboard.
You only need to install the
Driver Station Update. It's complete.
In competition, however, the Driver Station must be the Classmate netbook.
You can run the Dashboard on the Classmate too, or use a separate PC just for the Dashboard.
If you want to develop code for the robot (cRIO) you can program in LabVIEW, C++ or Java. All three come only on the installation DVDs in the KOP, but you only have to install what you'll be using plus a few shared National Instrument tools.
A LabVIEW project needs to be built and downloaded.