On 2/3/10 6:12 AM, janani venkat wrote:
> Thank you..
> And can you give me a tutorial kinda thing to connect them using LAN?

Start with buying the cable.

The people in the list are happy to assist you with hadoop-related 
questions.

Feel free to use a search engine of your choice to get the relevant 
background as pointed to in a given thread.  You got to do your own home 
work.



> Becos
> am very new to this. It would be of greatly useful to me
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Habermaas, William<
> William.Habermaas@fatwire.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> You can setup the machines and configure them without being connected
>> over a network. But once you want to start up the services all machines
>> have to be active and reachable on the LAN.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: janani venkat [mailto:janani.cse06@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:51 AM
>> To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
>> Subject: Hadoop cluster setup
>>
>> Hi
>> I'm a beginner in working with hadoop. I want to know if we have to
>> physically connect the machines using LAN cable before setting up the
>> cluster.
>> Urgently needed to clarify this and start my work\
>> Regards
>> Janani
>>
>>      
>