Visit the quickstart page and setup pseudo distributed mode on a single machine.
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/quickstart.html Bill -----Original Message----- From: Fabio A. Miranda [mailto:fabio.a.mira...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:54 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Cluster setup Hello, > You don't need 4 machines. You can put everything on a single machine. That > is the easiest to get started. Once you have a cluster running on a single > machine then you can spread out over multiple machines. > Ok, but I don't understand what files exactly do I need to set up ? Can I get sample .xml files for basic cluster setup ?
