This isn’t mandatory but will help with following our tutorials. On the TurtleBot netbook it’s traditional to set the username and password to “turtlebot”. Select a timezone, language, keyboard layout, etc. This will erase your current operating system and all data on it, but it will be the cleanest way to install the new OS.įrom here things are pretty much the same as installing any other OS. In the “Installation Type” settings we recommend “Erase”. The first one is “Try Ubuntu” skip this as we are going to commit! Select “Install Ubuntu”. If you’ve set the correct Boot Drive you should see a few different options. Then go to “Advanced” and “Set First Boot Drive” to “USB-HDD”. Choose your USB drive (ours was called “USB-HDD”).Īnother option if you are having trouble with the Boot Menu is to boot it into BIOS mode (another function key depending on your computer). You should then see an option to “Select a Boot First Drive”. Typically this is F12 or F8, but it could be any of them. You’ll need to get to the Boot Menu by pressing the appropriate function key during boot-up. Boot Via USBĪfter the USB drive is ready, connect it to the computer you want to install Linux on and reboot the machine. TIP: Newer releases of Ubuntu Desktop (including 14.10) are not compatible with ROS. Follow these instructions to create an Ubuntu-bootable USB drive. Create Installation USB driveįirst download Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 LTS on a Windows machine (virtually everyone will need the 64-bit version but if you are concerned here are instructions on how to check if you are 64-bit or 32-bit).

You’ll install Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 LTS on both of them using the same process. As we mentioned in a previous post, you have the TurtleBot netbook and a workstation. We started with two Windows computers and installed Linux instead.

TIP: The recently added “Jade” distribution is not LTS. ROS Hydro and earlier distributions are not LTS. ROS Indigo is specifically designed to work with Ubuntu 14.04. Why Should I Use (or upgrade to) ROS Indigo and Ubuntu 14.04?īoth Ubuntu 14.04 and ROS Indigo are LTS (Long Term Support), meaning that you can depend on it for years. The developers of ROS highly recommend using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and ROS Indigo instead. When we purchased our TurtleBot 2 in September 2014 it shipped with Ubuntu 12 (12 being the version #) and ROS Hydro (Hydro being the distribution release’s name). In our case it’s indigo, which is what we want. Whatever is written next is the name of your ROS distribution. If you look below the PARAMETERS heading, you’ll see /rosdistro.

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