Re: Using Hadoop in Windows

[Doug Cutting]

Senthil wrote:
I want to use Hadoop on windows for demonstration. Has anyone was able to
run it on Windows. I tried to modify the startup script and it is not
working.

Hadoop should work on Windows, but it requires cygwin.

http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/api/overview-summary.html#overview_description

Are you using cygwin?  If so, what version of Hadoop, and what sort of 
problems are you having?

Doug