Nvidia Jetson Nano - Non-SD Card image

Sure @acostach ,

This is more for the operational side, we just need to simplify this process as much as possible. The people that usually flash our current devices are not engineers, probably haven’t used Ubuntu at all… So the process we have to make it dead simple, and Etcher is a really friendly tool, easy to teach and also runs in Windows, Linux and MacOS, so that’s why we like it. Our current process is for Intel-NUC boards so it’s even simpler because is just the USB Drive, but I understand that an approach similar to that one is not possible due the lack of BIOS in the board and the need of doing Recovery Mode.

So it Etcher is not a possibility for now, I was thinking about providing to the Operations team multiple computers with Ubuntu installed and maybe an Electron App that interacts with the jetson-flash project either by calling the ./bin/cmd.js command directly or by adding code that does the same but that gets the information from a dead simple UI.

I hope that I explained my point properly, thanks!

Thank you for sharing these details!

For most of the boards it’s possible to use an sd-card or a usb key, and for some other devices, due to their specific design, it’s necessary to use the tools provided by the board manufacturer, some of which can only run on Linux. I will pass this information to our team and we’ll further look into what we can do to simplify the flashing process for this device types.

Best regards,
Alexandru

Thanks for your help!