Flashing the Nao

This document describes how to flash your Nao robot and what basic steps can be done for the USB stick.

Preparing the USB stick

1. Plug the USB stick into your development machine.
2. Go to your local NaoQi directory, i.e. cd /opt/naoqi.
3. Flash the USB drive with

   sh tools/flashusbnaokey /path/to/opennao-image-usb-nao-geode-0.1.18.ext3
   

   You can get the required image file from the Aldebaran website.
4. Format the second partition on the USB stick with ext3 and relabel the primary partition.

   SCSI_ID=$(dmesg |grep -e Kingmax |sed 's/^.*scsi \([0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:[0-9]*:\).*$/\1/' | tail -1)
   echo $SCSI_ID
   # if no output is generated by the echo command above stop here!
   DEV=$(dmesg |grep $SCSI_ID| grep "removable disk"| sed 's/.*\[\([a-z]*\)\].*$/\1/' | tail -1)
   echo $DEV
   # if no output is generated by the echo command above stop here!
   fdisk /dev/$DEV
   # This starts fdisk, type the given commands to change the type of the secondary partition for ext3:
   Command (m for help): t
   Partition number (1-4): 2
   Hex code (type L to list codes): 83
   
   Command (m for help): w
   
   mkfs.ext3 -L robocup /dev/${DEV}2
   e2label /dev/${DEV}1 naosys
   

5. Mount the USB stick, on Fedora just type sync (as root) and remove the key
6. Put the USB stick in the robot and boot it, login via SSH over the network configuration just configured. This is a basic Nao as you get it from Aldebaran.

You are now set to boot your robot and prepare it for Fawkes. Read the Nao Robot Setup section for this.