Unless you have a specific need to run a specific Hadoop distro, you might consider just using Amazon Elastic MapReduce. You can always come back to rolling your own, at that time you might look at Whirr.
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/ http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/ ckw On Mar 11, 2011, at 5:04 PM, JJ siung wrote: > Hi, > > I am following a setup guide here: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/AmazonEC2 but > runs into problems when I tried to launch a cluster. > An error message said > "hadoop-0.21.0/common/src/contrib/ec2/bin/launch-hadoop-master: line 40: > ec2-describe-instances: command not found" > I am not even sure if I edited the hadoop-ec2-env.sh correctly. Is there any > newer tutorial for setting this up? > > Thanks! -- Chris K Wensel ch...@concurrentinc.com http://www.concurrentinc.com -- Concurrent, Inc. offers mentoring, and support for Cascading
