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Posted to commits@hbase.apache.org by ji...@apache.org on 2009/03/02 20:52:21 UTC
svn commit: r749424 - in /hadoop/hbase/trunk: CHANGES.txt
src/java/overview.html
Author: jimk
Date: Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009
New Revision: 749424
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=749424&view=rev
Log:
HBASE-1230 Document installation of HBase on Windows
Modified:
hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt
hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html
Modified: hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt?rev=749424&r1=749423&r2=749424&view=diff
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--- hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt (original)
+++ hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
(Erik Holstad via Stack)
HBASE-1188 Memory size of Java Objects - Make cacheable objects implement
HeapSize (Erik Holstad via Stack)
+ HBASE-1230 Document installation of HBase on Windows
Release 0.19.0 - 01/21/2009
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
Modified: hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html?rev=749424&r1=749423&r2=749424&view=diff
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--- hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html (original)
+++ hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009
@@ -48,7 +48,18 @@
wild skew can generate odd behaviors. Run <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol">NTP</a>
on your cluster, or an equivalent.</li>
</ul>
-
+<h3>Windows</h3>
+If you are running HBase on Windows, you must install <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>. Additionally, it is <emph>strongly recommended</emph> that you add or append to the following environment variables. If you install Cygwin in a location that is not C:\cygwin you should modify the following appropriately.
+<p>
+<pre>
+HOME=c:\cygwin\home\jim
+ANT_HOME=(wherever you installed ant)
+JAVA_HOME=(wherever you installed java)
+PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin; other windows stuff
+SHELL=/bin/bash
+</pre>
+For additional information, see the <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html">Hadoop Quick Start Guide</a>
+</p>
<h2><a name="getting_started" >Getting Started</a></h2>
<p>
What follows presumes you have obtained a copy of HBase and are installing