Re: Unclear Hadoop 2.1X documentation

[Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com>]

Moving general@ to bcc and redirecting this to the appropriate list -
user@hadoop.apache.org


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Jagat Singh <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Mahmoud
>
> You can run on your machine also.
>
> I learnt everything on my 3gb 2ghz machine and recently got better machine.
>
> If you follow this post below you should be able to install and run hadoop
> in 30 mins.
>
> If your machine is not linux then i suggest you to download virtualbox ,
> give it 1400mb ram and start ubuntu in it.
>
> Then just follow steps here.
>
>
> http://jugnu-life.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/hadoop-20-install-tutorial-023x.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jagat
> On 16/09/2013 7:07 PM, "Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi" <me...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Ted,
> >
> > for now i just need to learn the basics of the hadoop before going to ask
> > my university for more powerful machines.
> > i just want to know how to install and write some simple programs to ask
> my
> > supervisor for another server machines
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Ted Dunning <td...@maprtech.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is a very small amount of memory for running Hadoop + user
> programs.
> > >
> > > You might consider running your tests on a cloud provider like Amazon.
> > >  That will give you access to decent sized machines for a relatively
> > small
> > > cost.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi <me...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks to all, i'v tried to use some of these sandboxs, but
> > unfortunately
> > > > most of them a high amount of memory(3GB) for the guest machine and i
> > > have
> > > > only a 3GB on my machine (old machine), so i'm going to go along with
> > the
> > > > the normal installation (i have no choice)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Mahmoud Al-Ewiwi <
> mewiwi@gmail.com
> > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm new to Hadoop and i want to learn it in order to do a
> project.
> > > > > > I'v started reading the documentation at this site:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.1.0-beta/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > for setting a single node, but i could not figure a lot of things
> > in
> > > > > these
> > > > > > documentation.
> > > > >
> > > > > For the first timer like yourself, perhaps using a Hadoop
> > distribution
> > > > > would be the best way to get started. Bigtop offers a 100%
> community
> > > > > driven distro, but there are, of course, vendor choices as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's the info on Bigtop:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+install+Hadoop+distribution+from+Bigtop+0.6.0
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Roman.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>