Anand, Instructions to build Hadoop 2.2 on Windows are at https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hadoop2OnWindows
Chuck Lam's book is great but out of date wrt Windows support. Windows XP is not a supported platform. Windows Server 2008 or later is recommended and Windows Vista is also likely to work. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Anand Murali <anand_vi...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Dear All: > > I have been on a discovery cum learning process for the last 2 months, > trying to install and use the above Hadoop packages using Cygwin on the > Windows XP platform, after reading a text book (Hadoop in action - Chuck > Lam), where he has suggested using Cygwin to work with a Unix like > environment. > > Much to my dismay, I have come across many installation and runtime > problems with both Cygwin and Hadoop and things have been very unstable. I > posted this issue on the issue tracker website and was told that Cygwin is > not supported on both Hadoop releases, however, I could build for a windows > environment. I am not sure of how it is done and need assistance and > advise. I shall be thankful for a response and direction. Look forward to > an early reply. > > Thanks, > > Anand Murali > 11/7, 'Anand Vihar', Kandasamy St, Mylapore > Chennai - 600 004, India > Ph: (044)- 28474593/ 43526162 (voicemail) > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.