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How do I go about disabling the flash part of the scripts?

I compile on a remote VM, so it is a bit difficult for me.

It seems to fail saying that esptool is not there, but the binaries (for the blink example / nodeMCU) are not in the /firmware folder.

any help appreciated..

Are you referring to CHERTS - My Espressif DevKit for Windows + Eclipse IDE?

If you run the makefile to build the project then if it cant' communicate with the serial device it won't do the flashing. Problem solved. You should still end up with the firmware files.

I am running that SDK in a VM and I am able to connect the USB FTDI device to my VM and flash firmware successfully.