This should answer all of your questions: <http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/GettingStartedWithHadoop>
Or if you run Ubuntu, cross-reference this: < http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_(Single-Node_Cluster) > Alex On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Amit k. Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, let me describe what I have done. Subsequently i shall ask > for some clarifications. > > I an using 3 linux boxes with Hadoop 0.17. Box A is the namenode. Box > B is the job tracker. Box C is the datanode cum task tracker, > > I have been successfully able to run some of the examples shipped > alongwith the distribution. > > On each box i have the same hadoop-site.xml.(Reason : i was not sure > which information to include or exclude where ). > Is this a correct practice ? > > Is it necessary to fill in the conf/masters on the namenode? Is it for > the secondary namenode? My current file contains just one host(itself) > in the slaves file. Hence. The secondary namenode is also on the > namenode. > What if there are more than 3 or more hosts?. > > Thanks a lot for the help. > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > Amit Kumar Saha > http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ > http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ > Skype: amitkumarsaha >
