we use centos 5 with pxe and kickstart to anto install os as well as necessary lib and software such as gmond ,jdk, hadoop,bcfg2-client。
when manchine is ready,we have a bcfg2 config center machine to snyc all config file. ----- 天天开心 身体健康 Stephen Leacock<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_leacock.html> - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." 2009/11/3 Praveen Yarlagadda <praveen.yarlaga...@gmail.com> > Hi all, > > I have been running Hadoop on Ubuntu for a while now in distributed mode (4 > node cluster). Just playing around with it. > Going forward, I am planning to have more nodes added to the cluster. Just > want to know which linux flavor is the best > to run Hadoop on? Please let me know. > > Regards, > Praveen >