Author: jimk Date: Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009 New Revision: 749424 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=749424&view=rev Log: HBASE-1230 Document installation of HBase on Windows
Modified: hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html Modified: hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt?rev=749424&r1=749423&r2=749424&view=diff ============================================================================== --- hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt (original) +++ hadoop/hbase/trunk/CHANGES.txt Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009 @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ (Erik Holstad via Stack) HBASE-1188 Memory size of Java Objects - Make cacheable objects implement HeapSize (Erik Holstad via Stack) + HBASE-1230 Document installation of HBase on Windows Release 0.19.0 - 01/21/2009 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES Modified: hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html?rev=749424&r1=749423&r2=749424&view=diff ============================================================================== --- hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html (original) +++ hadoop/hbase/trunk/src/java/overview.html Mon Mar 2 19:52:21 2009 @@ -48,7 +48,18 @@ wild skew can generate odd behaviors. Run <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol">NTP</a> on your cluster, or an equivalent.</li> </ul> - +<h3>Windows</h3> +If you are running HBase on Windows, you must install <a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>. Additionally, it is <emph>strongly recommended</emph> that you add or append to the following environment variables. If you install Cygwin in a location that is not C:\cygwin you should modify the following appropriately. +<p> +<pre> +HOME=c:\cygwin\home\jim +ANT_HOME=(wherever you installed ant) +JAVA_HOME=(wherever you installed java) +PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin; other windows stuff +SHELL=/bin/bash +</pre> +For additional information, see the <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html">Hadoop Quick Start Guide</a> +</p> <h2><a name="getting_started" >Getting Started</a></h2> <p> What follows presumes you have obtained a copy of HBase and are installing