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Booting Up the Jetson TK1

Follow the steps listed below to power up the Jetson and view its contents.

1. Connect Jetson to monitor via HDMI
2. Plug in ac adapter to Jetson (12V 4.2A) (press Power button if needed)
3. Login in using the default login
   1. Username: Ubuntu
   2. Password: Ubuntu

Installing Jetpack

Jetpack is the development kit by Nvidia for the Jetson TK1 (and TX1) that allows you to flash the latest OS and gives you more development tools. In order to install it and read more details about it, follow the steps below.

1. Go to Nvidia's Embedded Downloads page: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads
2. Download the lastest version of Jetpack for L4T (Linux 4 Tegra), Jetpack as of the date of this tutorial must be installed on a Ubuntu 14.04 x64