Toradex Easy Installer is a tool that enables you to flash an OS image to the Computer on Module with a few clicks and very easily. It comes pre-installed from factory for seamless out-of-the-box and production programming experiences.

In this module you will:

Power on your system.
Use the Toradex Easy Installer graphical user interface to flash Torizon.

Typographic Conventions

Throughout the Toradex documentation, the following typographic conventions are used:

$ (dollar sign) Command in the host computer (e.g. your PC)

$ Command in your PC

$$ (double dollar sign) Command in a container in the host computer (e.g. your PC)

$$ Command inside a container in your PC

# (hashtag) Command in the target device/board (e.g. Linux terminal)

# Command in the target board, e.g. Colibri iMX6

## (double hashtag) Command inside a container in the target device (Torizon)

## Command inside a container in Torizon

> (greater-than sign) Command in the bootloader (e.g. U-Boot console)

> Command in the Bootloader

No symbol: Command output

$ Command waiting for output
Output

Prerequisites

For this lesson:

Have all cables connected and setup

Note: Carefully read this module's cover page clicking on "Module 1: Unboxing and Bring-up" on the left menu bar before starting this lesson.

Step 1

Power-on your board and you should see the Toradex Easy Installer displayed on the monitor attached to the VGA port of the Aster. Images available for download are listed. If none are currently shown, check if the Ethernet cable is connected and press "r" to refresh.

Toradex Easy Installer

As observed in the screenshot above, the IP address in the example is 192.168.1.109.

Warning: Make sure you take note of your board's IP address, as highlighted in the picture. You will need it for the next lessons. The /24 at the end is just the ip mask, please disregard it. To use ssh, stick to the default port 22.

If your module doesn't have the Toradex Easy Installer

Your module should have come with the Toradex Easy Installer pre-installed.

If this isn't the case, you can follow the link below to deploy the Toradex Easy Installer to the module before proceeding:

Loading Toradex Easy Installer

Step 2

Notice that there are two types of images for Torizon. You will use the one that provides the best out-of-the-box user experience:

TorizonCore with evaluation containers: to provide the best out-of-the-box experience, this image comes with Portainer, a graphical container manager, pre-installed. We'll use this image on the Quickstart Guide and you will learn more about Portainer in the next lessons.
TorizonCore: this image does not have any evaluation containers pre-installed. It is best suitable for later steps of development. For instance, once you start to customize the TorizonCore base image using tools as the TorizonCore Builder Tool, you'll most likely want to use the TorizonCore image.

To install Torizon use the connected keyboard arrow key buttons to navigate and select the latest version of TorizonCore with evaluation containers.

Due to differences in the revisions of NXP i.MX 8X SoC, different versions of Colibri iMX8X require different software. Examine the label on the Computer on Module to find its version: