cRIO Image Download

[ksanger]

I might have found it. Won't know until Tuesday evening. But here is my trials and tribulations. I've been at it for four hours now. Hopefully this will save you time in the long run.

I too can not find the image and have no clue what is missing. I flashed the Classmate with USB "2012 Image E11". The Classmate saw an old cRIO with our old team number on it. (I assume this set the Clasemates IP address which is why Ethernet would not work at home below).

Then brought the Classmate home as we had to "Activate" Windows 7. Activation didn't work until a miracle occurred and the classmate was able to see the hard wired Ethernet. Windows 7 activated. MS Security Essentials updated, ran, reactivated okay.

As a side note I've been on two teams now. The first team was behind a business firewall. The current team operates within a school system. Neither enable us to go out to the internet and verify OS's, or product keys, or updates. We can download files and sneaker net them over. But registrations do not work. As I'm doing this from home my students are not available so we can teach them too. Perhaps its best as I've had it for tonight.

We downloaded and ran FRC2012DriverStationUpdate. Note we are going to use JAVA. Above post pointed to 2012-kit-of-parts-control-system. Java link pointed to
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/frs/do/...update_for_frc

There is no crio imaging tool anywhere. The classmate does not have a DVD drive. I haven't looked to see if there is a USB Stick in the NI folder as we were not going to use labview. Hmmm. Are there two USB sticks in the kit of parts?

FRC2012Utilities.zip does not open. Instead I get an error message "Please Insert Disk...". Note the third download is now extracting as we type. When I double click setup nothing happens. When I right click then hit open it runs. But then it appears to run twice? I see no program that looks like cRIO Imaging Tool. Where does it go? Sorry, finally found it under Programs, National Instruments LabView 2011, FRC 2012 cRIO Imaging Tool. Its on our hard drive under C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2011\project\CRIO Tool\FRC CRIO Imaging Tool

I'm out of time tonight. Don't feel like I know what I'm doing. This isn't any fun. I realize that a lot of people have put a lot of time into all of the software we are using. But this is worse than installing linux or android.