Definitive Guide to Using the Jetson TK1/TX1?

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Sm0oth_kriminal

While a lot of what he says seems to be quite restrictive (only Ubuntu 14.04), technically, that is what the Nvidia docs requires for the GUI. However, there are instructions which require some shell commands here. You could probably flash the TX1 using any GNU/Linux OS (probably BSD too).

I used Ubuntu 15.10 with these instructions, and it worked like a charm. The GUI essentially just does this, but the GUI was extremely messed up on my VM (screen size caused weird adjusting).

In any case, you only need a shell, `tar`, and likely `dd` (I'm not sure what is used internally) to install the L4T suite. This comes with: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra-r242

OP specifically said upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 on the Jetson rendered the USB ports unusable and that is simply untrue.

EDIT: Also, you don't need any of those command line tools. Use JetPack.

PLEASE STOP and READ THE DOCUMENTATION.

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetpack-notes

Originally Posted by NVIDIA JETPACK DOCS

System Requirements
Supported Host Platform Requirements:

Ubuntu Linux x64 (v14.04)
JetPack for L4T runs on the host Ubuntu x86_64 machine and sets up your development environment and Jetson Development Kit target via remote access.
Note: A valid Internet connection and at least 10GB of disk space is needed for the complete installation of JetPack.

Note the requirement of a host OS running v14.04 of Ubuntu. Specifically the 64 bit version. This is required for JetPack. JetPack will install 16.04 on the Jetson and it will work afterwards. I've done this about 2 dozen times and it works. I've also recompiled the Kernel for Jetson.

900 is going to be working on a guide for this that doesn't contain a bunch of nonsense. Stay tuned.