Flashing ubuntu 14.04 on Nvidia TX2

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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Hi,

Is there a way to flash Ubuntu 14.04 onto the Nvidia TX2 develper kit board?
I need to install ROS indigo which is only compatible with Ubuntu 14.04.

Thanks

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The TX1 had an Ubuntu 14.04 release, but the TX2 has always been 16.04. I have not heard of anyone porting 14.04 to a TX2, but lots of people are interested in ROS. Anyone know if there is a way to get ROS working on Ubuntu 16.04/TX2?

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OSRF began supporting aarch64 starting with ROS Kinetic. Here’s an article by JetsonHacks about installing it on TX2:

[b][url]http://www.jetsonhacks.com/2017/03/27/robot-operating-system-ros-nvidia-jetson-tx2/[/url][/b]

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No, there’s not supported way to get Ubuntu 14.04 onto the TX2. It needs a much newer kernel and drivers.
ROS kinetic and up are the way to go. If you have indigo programs to run, you’ll need to port them to kinetic (which I hear is easy, but I’ve never done it.)

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Thanks. Yes, ROS kinetic is available for Ubuntu 16.04, but I’m using some packages for SLAM in ROS indigo which are not yet available in kinetic. Guess, I have to use some alternate packages.