You may also want to try Apache Whirr. I found this to be very straight forward and easy to quickly deploy a fully functional Hadoop cluster. http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/quick-start-guide.html
<http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/quick-start-guide.html>--Jason On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Chris K Wensel <ch...@wensel.net> wrote: > 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 > >