hi, i have downloaded and untarred hadoop v0.23.9. i am trying to set up a single node instance to learn this version of hadop. also, i am following as best as i can, the instructions at http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.23.9/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html .
when i attempt to run ${HADOOP_HOME}/bin/hdfs namenode -format, i get the following error. Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode the instructions in the link above are complete. they jump right in and say, "assuming you have installed hadoop-common/hadoop-hdfs..." what does this assumption even mean? how do we install hadoop-common and hadoop-hdfs? right now, i am running on CentOS 6.4 x64 minimal. my steps are the following. 0. installed jdk 1.7 (Oracle) 1. tar xfz hadoop-0.23.9.tar.gz 2. mv hadoop-0.23.9 /opt 3. ln -s /opt/hadoop-0.23.9 /opt/hadoop 4. export HADOOP_HOME=/opt/hadoop 5. export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java 6. export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${HADOOP_HOME}/bin:${PATH} any help is appreciated.