have you tried have you tried http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/

have you tried have you tried http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/ http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun... and then migrate to multi node http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-multi-node-cluster/ http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun...